posted 06-03-2022 10:41 AM               

Progress MS-20 launches, docks to space station

Russia's Progress MS-20 spacecraft lifted off at 5:32 a.m. EDT (0932 GMT or 2:32 p.m. Baikonur time) on Friday (June 3) atop a Soyuz 2.1a rocket from Site 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The cargo vehicle was placed into a fast-track, two-orbit rendezvous to link up to the aft port of the International Space Station's Zvezda service module.

Docking occurred at 9:02 a.m. EDT (1302 GMT).

Progress MS-20 carried about about three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the Expedition 67 crew aboard the space station.

posted 06-21-2022 08:49 PM               

For the first time, video cameras were installed on the fairing doors of the Soyuz-2 rocket, which launched on June 3.

posted 02-07-2023 08:51 AM               

Progress departs space station and reenters

Filled with trash and destined for a destructive reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, Russia's Progress MS-20 resupply spacecraft undocked from the aft port on the International Space Station's Zvezda service module on Monday (Feb. 6) at 11:56 p.m. EDT (0456 GMT Feb. 7).

After firing its thrusters to move away from the space station and then begin its descent back to Earth, the vehicle was destroyed over the Pacific Ocean about four hours later.