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08/02/2012
On August 2, 5.18 cet carried out docking cargo vehicle (THC) Progress M-16M to the International Space Station (ISS).
Progress M-16M approaching ISS
THC docked to a docking bay (CO) Pirs. Convergence process was carried out in automatic mode controlled by the Mission Control Center specialists of FSUE TsNIIMash and Russian crew members of ISS cosmonauts Space Agency Gennady Padalka, Sergei and Yuri Malenchenko Revina.
Successful Fast Docking of Progress 48 (M-16M)
The ship delivered cargo to the station needed to keep the ISS in manned mode and the program of applied research on its board.
Among the goods - fuel, oxygen, water, equipment for scientific experiments ("Vizir", "MATI-75", "Relax," "SLS", "Vector-T", "Typology", "Aseptic", "Ginseng- 2 "," Cascade "," Biodegradation "," Coulomb crystal "), equipment for the Russian and American segments of the station, the means of medical support, as well as containers of food, expendables, etc.
Progress-M cutaway description
The total weight of all cargo delivered was 2639 kg.
The ISS crew continues to work 32/33-y long expedition in the commander Gennady Padalka, flight engineers Sergei Revina and Yuri Malenchenko (Federal Space Agency), NASA astronauts Joseph Acaba and Sanita Williams, Akihiko Hoshide (JAXA).
The launch of "truck" - the third this year. The previous were also successfully carried out January 26 (TGC "Progress M-14M") and April 20 (TGC "Progress M-15M").
Original text in Russian: http://www.federalspace.ru/main.php?id=2&nid=19383
Images, Video, Text, Credits: Press Service of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos PAO) / NASA TV / Mars Center, G. De Chara / Translation: Orbiter.ch.
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