The cargo ship "Progress"
undocked from the ISS
The cargo ship "Progress", by which last week had
tested a new docking system "Course-ON", today finally undocked from the
ISS and sent to a "free floating".
"Over the next three weeks on the" Progress M-15M ", which is today at 01:16 GMT on command from Earth, undocked from the ISS and began autonomous flight, will be carried out several series of experiments," Radar-Progress "- a correspondent reported. ITAR- TASS in the Mission Control Center outside Moscow / MCC /.
The purpose of the experiment, "Radar-Progress" - the definition of the space-time dependences of density, temperature, composition, local inhomogeneities of the ionosphere, resulting from ship engines, reminded at MCC.
Especially for autonomous flight to the "truck" left a bit of fuel. At the end of the experiment after 20 August, "Progress M-15M" in a designated flood area of the Pacific Ocean, far from shipping routes.
Vacant berth in the transition of ISS module "Pirs" August 2 to take the next cargo ship - "Progress M-16M", which will deliver to the ISS about 2.5 tons of various cargoes. The other three berths of the Russian segment - in laboratory modules "Search" / MIM-2 / "Sunrise" / MIM-1 / and the service module "Zvezda" - occupy the manned spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-04M", "Soyuz TMA-05M" and the third European "Truck" series ATV "Edoardo Amaldi."
Since autumn 2007, almost all "trucks" after undocking from the station is used as a research module. "The use of" Progress "as the science laboratories will be continued in the future", - stressed in the MCC.
Cargo ships and has been repeatedly used as orbiting laboratories, recalled in the MCC. For example, the "Progress" run by Russian and German micro-satellites, as well as investigated the possibility of ejection seat to save the crew of shuttle "Buran". Some of the ships were equipped with the capsule, through which the Earth from orbit returned to 60 kg of cargo. A "Progress M-13M" before the flooding was first used to test a specially designed launch canister, which has successfully "shot off" scientific microsatellite "Chibis-M".
In 2003, "Progress M1-10" after undocking from the ISS during the month with special cameras conducted surveillance of areas of natural and environmental disasters, in 2005 for "truck" within 10 days of testing some of the passive modes of orientation, and in 2007 -11 years in the number of "Progress" experimented "Plasma-Progress" and "Radar-Progress."
The cargo ship "Progress", by which last week had
tested a new docking system "Course-ON", today finally undocked from the
ISS and sent to a "free floating"."Over the next three weeks on the" Progress M-15M ", which is today at 01:16 GMT on command from Earth, undocked from the ISS and began autonomous flight, will be carried out several series of experiments," Radar-Progress "- a correspondent reported. ITAR- TASS in the Mission Control Center outside Moscow / MCC /.
The purpose of the experiment, "Radar-Progress" - the definition of the space-time dependences of density, temperature, composition, local inhomogeneities of the ionosphere, resulting from ship engines, reminded at MCC.
Especially for autonomous flight to the "truck" left a bit of fuel. At the end of the experiment after 20 August, "Progress M-15M" in a designated flood area of the Pacific Ocean, far from shipping routes.
Vacant berth in the transition of ISS module "Pirs" August 2 to take the next cargo ship - "Progress M-16M", which will deliver to the ISS about 2.5 tons of various cargoes. The other three berths of the Russian segment - in laboratory modules "Search" / MIM-2 / "Sunrise" / MIM-1 / and the service module "Zvezda" - occupy the manned spacecraft "Soyuz TMA-04M", "Soyuz TMA-05M" and the third European "Truck" series ATV "Edoardo Amaldi."
Since autumn 2007, almost all "trucks" after undocking from the station is used as a research module. "The use of" Progress "as the science laboratories will be continued in the future", - stressed in the MCC.
Cargo ships and has been repeatedly used as orbiting laboratories, recalled in the MCC. For example, the "Progress" run by Russian and German micro-satellites, as well as investigated the possibility of ejection seat to save the crew of shuttle "Buran". Some of the ships were equipped with the capsule, through which the Earth from orbit returned to 60 kg of cargo. A "Progress M-13M" before the flooding was first used to test a specially designed launch canister, which has successfully "shot off" scientific microsatellite "Chibis-M".
In 2003, "Progress M1-10" after undocking from the ISS during the month with special cameras conducted surveillance of areas of natural and environmental disasters, in 2005 for "truck" within 10 days of testing some of the passive modes of orientation, and in 2007 -11 years in the number of "Progress" experimented "Plasma-Progress" and "Radar-Progress."
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