The unpiloted Roscosmos Progress 94 spacecraft is safely in orbit and headed to the Worldwide House Station following its launch at 7:59 a.m. EDT (4:59 p.m. Baikonur time) on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Following launch, one of many Progress spacecraft’s two KURS automated rendezvous antennas didn’t deploy as deliberate. All different programs are working as designed, and Progress will proceed towards its deliberate docking at 9:34 a.m. Tuesday, March 24, to the space-facing port of the station’s Poisk module. Roscosmos will proceed troubleshooting the antenna difficulty. If the antenna can’t be deployed, Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Kud-Sverchkov will manually pilot the spacecraft for rendezvous and docking utilizing the TORU (Telerobotically Operated Rendezvous System), which is a management panel positioned within the Zvezda Service Module that may be used as a backup to the KURS automated system.
NASA’s reside rendezvous and docking protection will start at 8:45 a.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the company’s YouTube channel. Discover ways to watch NASA content material by means of quite a lot of on-line platforms, together with social media.
The spacecraft is delivering about three tons of meals, gasoline, and provides to the orbiting laboratory.
Study extra about station actions by following the house station weblog, @space_station on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
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