Progress Resupply Ship

Success! Progress Spacecraft Overcomes Stuck Antenna, Arrives at Station

April 26, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter A software fix solved a sticky antenna problem on an unmanned cargo ship, a problem that threatened to interfere with the approach and docking to the International Space Station Friday. Progress 51 successfully docked with the massive orbiting complex at 8:35 [...]

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Progress Cargo Ship Launches to Space Station

April 24, 2013

The Russian Progress 51 cargo craft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan April 24, at 12:12 UTC (6:12 am EDT) and is on its way to the International Space Station. Unlike its three predecessors, Progress 51 will take the typical two-day rendezvous instead of the new 6-hour fast-track to reach the ISS. This is [...]

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Freaky Fast Delivery: Progress Blasts Off, Docks at ISS Hours Later

February 11, 2013

The Progress 50 resupply ship has now arrived at the International Space Station, just hours after it launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch took place at 9:41 a.m. EST, (14:40 UTC) today (February 11, 2013) and it took only a four-orbit journey to rendezvous with the ISS, docking at 3:34 pm EST (20:35 [...]

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Zoom Zoom! Progress Ship Goes from Launch to Docking in 6 Hours

October 31, 2012

The Progress 49 cargo craft ship went from zero to 28,000 km/h in about 8 minutes — as it usually does — but it then caught up and docked to the International Space Station in super-fast time, in less than six hours. This is the second Progress to take advantage of the abbreviated four-orbit rendezvous [...]

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