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Date: July 5, 2015 at 10:48:37 AM CDT
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Subject: FW: Progress M-28M docked to ISS

ROSCOSMOS: successful docking - "progress" in the ISS
05/07/2015 10:11
Today, July 5, 2015, at 10:11 MSK logistics vehicle (THC) "Progress M-28M" docked with the Pirs docking compartment of the Russian segment of the ISS.
Automatic docking operations were conducted under the supervision of the ISS commander Gennady Padalka, flight engineer Mikhail Kornienko and experts Mission Control Center FSUE TsNIIMash.
Search ISS, closer to the station and docking systems have been using the RATE-A created Precision Instruments Research Institute (part of the "Russian Space Systems").
Radio system of mutual measurements (SVR) to search, rendezvous and docking of spacecraft "Kurs-A" used to determine the relative motion parameters and automatic docking TGK "Progress M-28M" to the ISS. The system measures the mutual distance, radial and angular speed, bearing angles, orientation and tilt. High-precision multi-parameter data make it possible to determine the vector of mutual status spacecraft and implement automatic docking.
TGK "Progress M-28M" delivered to the ISS in 2381 kg of cargo, including oxygen, fuel, equipment for scientific experiments and supplies equipment and containers with food and water, parcels for the crew.

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First Progress spacecraft to deliver essential cargoes to ISS since February

July 05, 2:06 UTC+3
The docking will take place in the automatic mode

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MOSCOW, July 5 /TASS/. The Progress M-28M spacecraft with 2.4 tonnes of cargoes onboard is expected to dock with the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday morning, a source at the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) told TASS.
"The docking of Progress M-28M with the ISS is scheduled for 10:13 on July 5," the source said.
The docking will take place in the automatic mode. If anything goes wrong, Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Korniyenko who are currently working at the International Space Station (ISS) will be ready to dock the Progress manually.
The Progress M-28M will be the first Progress spacecraft to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) since February. US Dragon arrived at the ISS in April this year. Two spacecraft loaded with stocks have failed to reach the ISS over the past two months. Late in April, Roskosmos lost the Progress M-27M spacecraft with almost 2.5 tonnes of cargo onboard. A private US spacecraft Dragon carrying about 2,000 tonnes of cargo had an accident last Sunday.
The Progress M-28M is expected to deliver fuel, air, oxygen, containers and equipment for scientific experiments; water and food, the Mission Control Centre told TASS.
"About 430 kilograms of food products will be delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) this time. It is 100 kilograms more than had been sent on the previous Progress spacecraft. Progress M-28M will also deliver the US cargo (186 kg) and US scientific equipment (55 kg) to the orbit.
Alexander Agureyev from the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences who is responsible for the ISS crew's nutrition told TASS in previous interviews that Progress M-28M would carry more food to the station than the previous spacecraft. The standard food ratios include canned fish and meat, fresh apples, tomatoes, oranges, onions and garlic as well as confectionaries.
A Soyuz-U carrier rocket with the Progress M-28M onboard lifted off from the Baikonur space launch facility in Kazakhstan at 07:56 Moscow time on July 3. The spacecraft was successfully put in orbit nine minutes after the launch.

Russia's Progress space freighter delivers supplies to International Space Station
July 05, 10:41 UTC+3
The space freighter has delivered 2.4 tons of cargos for the ISS crew; over the past two months, two cargo space ships have failed to reach the ISS and deliver the necessary supplies
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KOROLYOV /Moscow Region/, July 5. /TASS/. Russia's Progress M-28M space freighter has successfully docked with the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), Mission Control Center said on Sunday.
"The operation was carried out in an automated mode," Mission Control said.
The space freighter has delivered 2.4 tons of cargos for the ISS crew. The Progress cargo ship was successfully launched into the designated orbit just nine minutes after it was launched aboard a Soyuz-U carrier rocket that blasted off from the Baikonur space station in Kazakhstan at 07:56 Moscow time (04:56 GMT) on July 3.
This is the first Progress cargo ship to dock with the ISS since February. Over this time, only a US Dragon space freighter that blasted off in April visited the world's sole orbiter.
Over the past two months, two cargo space ships have failed to reach the ISS and deliver the necessary supplies.
Late in April, Roscosmos lost a Progress-M-27M space freighter with about 2.5 tons of cargoes. On June 28, a US unmanned Falcon carrier rocket exploded just minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral in Florida. A Dragon space freighter aboard the Falcon carrier rocket was intended to deliver about 2 tons of supplies to the ISS.
Russia's Mission Control told TASS earlier the Progress space freighter would deliver the same cargoes to the world's sole orbiter, which the previous Russian cargo ship failed to supply due to its crash in late April. Specifically, the ISS crew will receive fuel, oxygen, containers and equipment for scientific experiments, water and foodstuffs.
"As for food, 430 kilos of foodstuffs will be delivered to the ISS or 100 kilos more than the amount delivered by the previous spacecraft," Mission Control said.
Also, the Progress space freighter will deliver US cargoes and scientific equipment. The chief of the ISS crew nourishment department at the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems, Alexander Agureyev, told TASS the Progress space freighter will deliver more food than usual "so that it will suffice for everyone."
These are standard food rations, including canned meat and fish, fresh apples, tomatoes, oranges, bulb onion and garlic, and also confectionary.

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Russia's 'Progress-M28M' Cargo Spacecraft Successfully Docks With ISS
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The Progress spacecraft brought some 2,400 kilograms (5,300 pounds) of cargo, including fuel, air, food and scientific equipment for the ISS crew.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Russian Progress-M28M cargo spacecraft has successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), the Mission Control said Sunday.
"Successful docking of Progress M-28M," Roscosmos said on Twitter.
Успешная стыковка — "Прогресс М-28М" в составе МКС: http://t.co/8zjkUMCAkY pic.twitter.com/xRwZlsSSpa
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The Soyuz-U carrier rocket with the Russian Progress-M28M cargo spacecraft was launched at 07:55 Moscow time (04:55 GMT) on Friday from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.
The Progress spacecraft brought some 2,400 kilograms (5,300 pounds) of cargo, including fuel, air, food and scientific equipment for the ISS crew, which currently consists of Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, who is the commander, and Mikhail Kornienko, as well as NASA astronaut Scott Kelly.
Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko controlled the docking process.
The successful delivery of cargo by the Russian Progress spacecraft comes a week after the failed launch of the American SpaceX CRS-7 Falcon 9 rocket carrying a Dragon cargo ship with supplies for the ISS.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said the space vessel exploded due to an overpressure in the liquid oxygen tank.

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Progress resupply mission arrives at ISS
By William Harwood
CBS News
July 5, 2015
The Progress M-28M spacecraft on final approach to the International Space Station.
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A Russian Progress cargo ship glided to a smooth docking with the International Space Station early Sunday, bringing more than 3 tons of supplies and equipment to the lab complex.
The unpiloted spacecraft's docking mechanism engaged its counterpart in the station's Earth-facing Pirs compartment at 3:11 a.m. EDT (GMT-4), two days after launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
"Guys, congratulations. your cargo vehicle has arrived," Russian flight director Vladimir Solovyev radioed from the Russian mission control center near Moscow.
"We congratulate you as well," cosmonaut Gennady Padalka replied from inside the station's Zvezda command module. "Thanks so much for sending it our way. … It feels like Christmas in July."
The successful launch, rendezvous and docking came after back-to-back resupply failures. A Progress launched April 28 spun out of control shortly after reaching orbit and one week ago, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket disintegrated during ascent, destroying a Dragon supply ship loaded with more than 4,000 pounds of supplies and equipment.
It is not yet known what caused the SpaceX failure, but Russian engineers said earlier they had identified and corrected the problem believed to be responsible for the Progress mishap and there were no problems of any significance with the M-28M/60P vehicle.
Before the launching, NASA said the station crew had enough supplies on board to continue normal operations through October. With the successful docking of the Progress M-28M/60P spacecraft, and assuming a Japanese HTV freighter arrives on schedule in August, the lab crew should be sufficiently stocked through the end of the year.

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Russian Cargo Spacecraft Arrives at Space Station
by Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer | July 05, 2015 03:15am ET

Russia's robotic Progress 60 cargo vessel approaches the International Space Station on July 5, 2015.
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A robotic Russian resupply ship arrived at the International Space Station early Sunday morning (July 5), ending a streak of two straight cargo-mission failures.
Russia's Progress 60 freighter docked at 3:11 a.m. EDT (0711 GMT) Sunday, while the space station was 251 miles (404 kilometers) above the Pacific Ocean to the southeast of New Zealand. Astronauts aboard the orbiting lab will soon begin offloading the 6,100 lbs. (2,770 kilograms) of food, water, fuel and other supplies brought up by the vessel.
The mission of Progress 60, which launched early Friday morning (July 3), was more closely watched than most cargo runs to the space station, because the previous two such efforts were unsuccessful.
On June 28, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket exploded less than three minutes after liftoff, scuttling the California-based company's seventh resupply mission. (SpaceX holds a $1.6 billion NASA contract to make at least 12 such flights to the $100 billion orbiting outpost using the Falcon 9 and the unmanned Dragon capsule.)
And the Progress 59 vessel fell back to Earth in May, about nine days after experiencing a problem during launch. Investigators later traced the cause to an issue with the third stage of the Russian Soyuz rocket that lofted the freighter.
The space station is fairly well stocked despite these back-to-back mishaps: It had enough supplies to support crewmembers through October before Progress 60's arrival, NASA officials said in the wake of the Falcon 9 explosion.
Three people currently live and work aboard the orbiting lab: NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka. Kelly and Kornienko are about three months into the first-ever yearlong mission aboard the station, which is designed to help pave the way for the lengthy journey to Mars.
Three more spaceflyers are scheduled to join this skeleton crew on July 22, bringing the station back up to full strength.
Another cargo vessel is slated to arrive relatively soon as well: If all goes according to plan, Japan's robotic H-2 Transfer Vehicle freighter will blast off on Aug. 16.

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Russian cargo ship docks at space station after string of failures
Moscow (AFP) - An unmanned Russian cargo ship successfully docked with the International Space Station on Sunday following a string of failed attempts to resupply the orbital laboratory.
"The transport cargo ship Progress M-28M has docked with the... Russian segment of the ISS at 10:11am Moscow time (0711GMT)," the Russian federal space agency (Roscosmos) said in a statement.
The ship is carrying more than 2,300 kilos of oxygen, fuel, food, and scientific equipment, as well as personal packages for the international crew of three.
Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko and US astronaut Scott Kelly are part of the Expedition 44 currently in space, to be joined by three more people later this month.
Commander Padalka is scheduled to return to Earth in November while Kornienko and Kelly are part of a year-long mission which will not go home until March next year.
"Crew reports, 'Feels like Christmas in July'," the official ISS Twitter account posted after the docking.
"Third time is the charm, as they say," Kelly chuckled on his Twitter blog, referring to the series of accidents that undermined previous cargo missions.
The Progress' arrival comes just one week after the explosion of a US Falcon 9 rocket launched by SpaceX which was supposed to deliver expensive gear to the unmanned Dragon capsule.
A previous launch of the Progress in April also ended badly, as Russian flight control lost communication with the ship and could do nothing but watch it slowly descend and burn up in the atmosphere.
Last year also marked the loss of the US Cygnus cargo carrier, whose Antares rocket exploded shortly after liftoff in October.
NASA had said the ISS was well-stocked through October even before the Progress arrived, but the industry has still been reeling after three accidents in a row.
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