Pristanišča ladij za napredovanje s vesoljsko postajo

Russia’s automated Progress MS-17 cargo ship docked with the International Space Station Thursday, wrapping up a two-day journey from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with nearly 2.7 tons of fuel, food, water, and supplies.

The Progress cargo craft linked up with the space station’s Poisk module at 8:59 p.m. EDT Thursday (0059 GMT Friday).

The unpiloted supply freighter launched from Baikonur at 7:27 p.m. EDT (2327 GMT) Tuesday atop a Soyuz-2.1a rocket. Since then, the cargo craft completed a series of orbital maneuvers to match the altitude of the space station, setting up for a radar-guided rendezvous Thursday.

The spacecraft lined up with the approach corridor for the Poisk module and moved in for docking as the space station soared more than 250 miles over the southeast Pacific Ocean.

V oddelku pod pritiskom vesoljske ladje Progress je natovarjenih 3,326 funtov (1,509 kilogramov) suhega tovora, vključno s strojno opremo, raziskovalnimi preiskavami, zalogami posadke, opremo za vzdrževanje življenja in drugimi predpisi, poroča ruska vesoljska agencija Roscosmos.

The Progress MS-17 spaceship also delivered deliver 1,036 pounds (470 kilograms) of propellant to refuel the propulsion system on the space station’s Russian segment, Roscosmos said. The freighter’s tanks are filled with 926 pounds (420 kilograms) of water for the crew aboard the space station. There’s also 89 pounds (40.5 kilograms) of air to replenish the atmosphere inside the research complex.

Po podatkih Roscosmosa skupna količina tovora in goriva misije znaša 5,377 funtov (2,439 kilogramov).

Cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov monitored the Progress spacecraft’s automated rendezvous and docking, ready to take over remote control of the spaceship if necessary. But the Progress craft’s Kurs rendezvous radar and autopilot system performed as expected Thursday.

Misija zaznamuje 78. izstrelitev oskrbovalne ladje Progress na Mednarodno vesoljsko postajo od leta 2000. Vesoljsko plovilo Progress MS-17 bo na vesoljski postaji ostalo do novembra, ko bo odšlo in se odpravilo na uničujoč ponovni vstop čez Tihi ocean odstraniti smeti.

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Source: https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/07/02/progress-ms-17-docking/