posted 02-14-2022 07:58 PM               

Progress MS-19 to resupply space station

Loaded with three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the Expedition 66 crew, Russia's Progress MS-19 cargo spacecraft is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday (Feb. 14) at 11:25 p.m. EST (0425 GMT or 9:25 a.m. on Feb. 15 local time) to resupply the International Space Station.

The Progress will go into orbit for a two-day rendezvous before performing an automated docking to the Poisk mini research module at 2:06 a.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 17 (0706 GMT).

The Soyuz 2a.1 rocket topped with the Progress MS-19 spacecraft was rolled out to Baikonur's Site 31 on Saturday (Feb. 12).

posted 02-14-2022 10:35 PM               

Progress MS-19 launches to space station

The 80th Progress cargo spacecraft to head for the International Space Station, Progress MS-19, is now on its way, having launched on Monday (Feb. 14) at 11:25 p.m. EST (0425 GMT or 9:25 a.m. on Feb. 15 local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The resupply ship reached its preliminary orbit and deployed solar arrays and navigational antennas as it began its two-day rendezvous.

After circling Earth 34 times, the Progress will dock to the space station's Poisk mini research module at 2:06 a.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 17 (0706 GMT).

On board, the Progress is carrying 3,598 pounds (1,632 kg) of dry supplies, 950 lbs (431 kg) of propellant, 926 lbs (420 kg) of water and 88 lbs (40 kg) of nitrogen.

posted 02-17-2022 09:51 AM               

Progress MS-19 docks at space station

The Progress MS-19 cargo spacecraft autonomously docked to the Poisk mini research module on the Russian segment of the International Space Station on Thursday (Feb. 17) at 2:03 a.m. EST (0703 GMT).

The Progress and station were flying 260 miles (418 km) above the South Pacific Ocean at the time of docking.

posted 10-24-2022 10:44 AM               

Progress MS-19 departs space station

The Roscosmos Progress MS-19 spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station's Poisk module at 6:46 p.m. EDT (2246 GMT) on Sunday (Oct. 23).

The spacecraft backed away from the space station and, a few hours later, fired its engines, setting up a destructive reentry in the Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.