Rocket “Soyuz-2.1b” with the Progress M-mind transport cargo ship and the berth module started from the Baikonur cosmodrome to the International Space Station (ISS), reports Roskosmos.
Start took place at 16:06 Moscow time.
Overtecaging “Progress MS-17” together with the “prefix” of the passive docking unit of the “Science” module from the ISS is scheduled for November 25 at 14:18 Moscow time. The docking of the MM-MM-MO-MO-MODE module with the “pier” to the ISS – on November 26 at 18:26. The separation of the instrument and aggregate compartment from the “Pier” is scheduled for December 22 at 01:20.
In November, the historian of Cosmonautics Alexander Zheleznyakov informed the TASS that during the launch of the nodular module “Pier” to the ISS with the help of the Russian Rocket “Soyuz-2.1b” a record was established. The agency reminded that the maximum deductible orbit-free load “Union-2” is 8.25 tons, then 8.18 tons will be displayed on November 24.
In the same month, Roscosmos reported that the “Soyuz-2.1b” missile, which the last module was to be derived to the orbit for the Russian segment of the ISS, were taken out and installed on the starting table on the Baikonur cosmodrome.
In July, the Proton-M rocket was launched from Baikonur to the ISS with a “Science” module.