 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
"Progress" Cargo Vehicle To Be Launched To ISS On February 28
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jan 25, 2005 A "Progress" cargo vehicle was delivered to the Baikonur cosmodrome from the city of Korolyov, which is near Moscow. Itar-Tass was told at Baikonur on Monday that the 2005 first start of a cargo vehicle to the International Space Station was scheduled for February 28. "The received Progress M-52 vehicle was placed in one of our assembly and test shops, on platform No. 254, where it will be readied for launching," a cosmodrome official stated. "Preparation jobs are to begin shortly, pending the arrival of a team of specialists from the Energia Space Rocket Complex," he added. The purpose of the cargo vehicle is to bring fuel, food products, scientific instruments and equipment, needed to replenish and service the board systems of the International Space Station," officials of the Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) added. They also noted that it was planned to send to the ISS two piloted "Soyuz-TMA" spaceships and four cargo vehicles this year (one every quarter of the year). "All the launchings will be carried out within the framework of the International Space Program from five launching pads of the Baikonur cosmodrome by means of Soyuz-type boosters. The International Space Station now has four modules with a total inner space of 470 cubic metres. Its mass tops 180 tons. It is planned to complete the building of the station by 2010. By that time, the "orbital structure" is to grow up to twenty-six modules and elements (six of them will be Russian) and the station's mass will then equal to about 400 tons. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links ISS at NASA Energia Space Rocket Complex Russia's Federal Space Agency SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Space Station News at Space-Travel.Com
NASA Had No Choice But To Buy Soyuz Flights
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2006NASA's announcement last week that it will pay Roskosmos $43.6 million for a round-trip ride to the International Space Station this spring, and an equivalent figure for an as-yet-undetermined number of future flights to the station until 2012, represents the agency's acknowledgment that it had no alternative. |
|
|
| The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2006 - SpaceDaily.AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA PortalReports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additionalcopyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement,agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by SpaceDaily on any Web page published or hosted by SpaceDaily. Privacy Statement |
