Russia launches cargo spacecraft toward International Space Station (video)

October 25, 2022

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One other Russian cargo craft is on its approach to the Worldwide Area Station.

A Soyuz rocket launched the uncrewed Progress 82 freighter towards the International Space Station (ISS) from the Russia-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan tonight (Oct. 25) at 8:20 p.m. EDT (0020 GMT and 5:20 a.m. native Baikonur time on Oct. 26).

Progress 82 is carrying practically 3 tons of meals, gas and different provides for the crewmembers of the orbiting lab’s present Expedition 68 mission.

Associated: How Russia’s Progress spaceships work (infographic)

A Russian Soyuz rocket launches the Progress 82 cargo craft towards the Worldwide Area Station from Baikonur Cosmodrome on Oct. 25, 2022. (Picture credit score: NASA TV/Roscosmos)

The freighter will chase the ISS for 2 days, lastly catching it and docking Thursday (Oct. 27) at 10:49 p.m. EDT (0249 GMT on Oct. 28), if all goes in line with plan. You possibly can watch the arrival right here on Area.com, courtesy of NASA TV . Protection is scheduled to start at 10:15 p.m. EDT (0215 GMT on Oct. 28).

Progress is considered one of three robotic spacecraft that presently fly cargo missions to the ISS. The opposite two are non-public American autos — SpaceX’s Dragon capsule and Northop Grumman’s Cygnus car.

Dragon is reusable, however Progress and Cygnus are expendable craft that expend in Earth’s atmosphere when their time in orbit is up. The Progress 80 vehicle lately gave up the ghost, in truth, departing the ISS on Sunday night (Oct. 23) and performing an intentional loss of life dive shortly thereafter.

One other Progress spacecraft stays on the ISS, nevertheless: Progress 81, which arrived in June.

Two crewed autos are docked with the orbiting lab in the mean time as nicely. One is a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which arrived in September. The opposite is SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule Endurance, which is flying the corporate’s Crew-5 mission for NASA. Endurance launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Oct. 5 and reached the ISS a day later.

Editor’s be aware: This story was up to date at 8:40 p.m. EDT on Oct. 25 with information of a profitable liftoff.

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