Soyuz-2.1 launch vehicle with Progress MS-06 truck successfully launched from Baikonur

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Press office Roscosmos announces the successful launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome of the Soyuz-2.1 launch vehicle with the Progress MS-06 transport cargo vehicle. The launch took place approximately at 12: 20 MSK in accordance with the ISS flight program. The launch pad was the site №31 at Baikonur. From the message of the department:
After 8 minutes 48 seconds after launch, the Progress MC-06 transport cargo ship successfully separated from the third stage and entered the specified orbit.

After the separation of the spacecraft from the third stage of the launch vehicle, the specialists of the Main Operations Group of the flight control of the Russian segment of the ISS (GOGU RS ISS) in the Mission Control Center (MCC) began to manage its flight.

The convergence of the Progress MS-06 transport vehicle with the station and the approach to the docking node of the Zvezda service module of the Russian segment of the ISS are planned to be carried out automatically under the supervision of GOGU RS ISS specialists in the MCC and the Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin.


Soyuz-2.1 launch vehicle with Progress MS-06 truck successfully launched from Baikonur


The report says that the docking of the spacecraft with the International Space Station is scheduled for June 16, at about 14: 42 in Moscow.

Post press service:
TGC “Progress MS-06” will deliver to the ISS about 2,5 tons of various cargoes, including dry cargo, fuel in KDU tanks and refueling systems, water, compressed gases, as well as equipment for complex scientific experiments, including Tansyusha UGSU ”,“ Sphere-53 ”, TNS-O №2.


The satellite "Tanyusha-UZGU" was created by a team of South-West State University together with the enterprises of the rocket and space industry. This is the satellite of the so-called nanoconception, which will transmit to the Earth telemetry and data on the survey of the earth's surface.
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  1. +2
    14 June 2017 13: 15
    Two days will fly. As I understand it, quick docking applies only when a passenger ship flies.
    1. +3
      14 June 2017 13: 26
      Not always, and the laws of ballistics are sometimes more profitable to ride longer. Again - for docking to take place over territory or ships, for reliability. Etc.
      1. +1
        14 June 2017 13: 28
        Clear. Recently, I often watch videos about space.
    2. 0
      14 June 2017 13: 32
      Quote: Rabinovich_007
      Two days will fly. As I understand it, quick docking applies only when a passenger ship flies.


      "Progress" is not passenger. Maybe his speed is not the same? what. wassat .
  2. 0
    15 June 2017 01: 13
    smiled the name of the satellite: "Tanyusha-YuGZU" mdya ... they know how to come up with our names wassat