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The Roscosmos Progress 94 spacecraft launched at 7:59 a.m. EDT (4:59 p.m. Baikonur time) March 22 on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
After launch, one of many spacecraft’s two KURS automated rendezvous antennas didn’t deploy. All different methods are working usually, and Progress is continuous towards its deliberate 9:34 a.m. docking to the space-facing port of the Worldwide House Station’s Poisk module.
Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov will manually pilot the spacecraft for rendezvous and docking utilizing the TORU (Telerobotically Operated Rendezvous System), a management panel contained in the Zvezda Service Module used as a backup to the KURS system.
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