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The agency informed about the journey of the ship Progress MS-24, which followed a few days after the crash of the Russian lunar module TASS.

In the current report she confirmed and Friday’s docking at the space station.

This cargo spacecraft joined the Zvezda station module on Friday at 5:45 a.m. CEST. It delivered a total of 2,495 kilograms of cargo for the crew to the ISS.

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“The cargo consists of 420 kg of water, 40 kg of nitrogen, 500 kg of propellants and mainly 1535 kg of bulk cargo. It includes food, hygiene products, medical equipment, clothing and, above all, 16 scientific experiments,” explained on the social network X (formerly Twitter), cosmonautics specialist Michal Václavík from the Czech Space Agency and the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Czech Technical University in Prague.

(1/2) At 05:45:18 CET, the Progress MS-24 cargo spacecraft joined the Zvezda module on the International Space Station ISS. It transported a total of 2495 kg of cargo for the crew of this and the upcoming long-term expedition. pic.twitter.com/HsvCXFYlb9

— Michal Vaclavik (@Kosmo_Michal) August 25, 2023

Due to strained relations between Russia and the West in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, US-Russian space cooperation on the ISS has suffered recently.

The International Space Station is a joint project of the American NASA, the Russian Roscosmos, the European ESA, Japan and Canada. However, in connection with the introduction of extensive anti-Russian sanctions due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Moscow made it clear that the ISS did not have a long-term future for it and announced that it wanted to build its own orbital station.

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US State Department spokesman Ned Price called last year’s Roscosmos announcement a regrettable development given the valuable professional cooperation the US and Russian space agencies have maintained over the years.

Will the Crew-7 mission take off on Saturday?

For now, however, cooperation on space flights continues.

In the four-member crew that is preparing for the Crew-7 mission to fly from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday aboard the Crew Dragon Endurance ship of the American company SpaceX, there is, in addition to NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeliová, a representative of the Russian Roscosmos: cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov.

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The crew, which includes the Dane Andreas Mogensen and the Japanese Satoshi Furukawa, will replace four other astronauts who were brought to the station by the Crew Dragon ship in March. Among them is the representative of Roscosmos – Andrej Feďayev. Along with this crew of four, there are three other astronauts on the station, two Russians and one American, whose return was complicated by meteorite damage to Soyuz MS-22.

The Crew-7 mission was scheduled to take off from Florida on Friday. The new launch date of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle with the Crew Dragon Endurance ship is Saturday, August 26 at 9:27 a.m. CEST.

The new date gives engineering teams extra time to complete analysis and thoroughly review the necessary data before the rocket launches, NASA wrote in its website with safety as a priority.

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“After conducting additional data review, the teams decided to spend more time confirming the necessary safety factors and operating margin on one of the components of the Dragon spacecraft’s Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS),” NASA said in a statement.

Crew Dragon is scheduled to dock with the ISS on Sunday, August 27 at 14:50 CEST.

A short-term space mission would cost the Czech Republic up to 1.5 billion crowns, the Ministry of Transport said

2023-08-26 02:15:55
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