Carrying water, food and fuel, the cargo ship Progress MS-24 docked at the International Space Station (ISS). This has been reported by Roscosmos. telegram channel.
“Today at 06:45:18 Moscow time, the truck automatically docked at the Zvezda service module of the Russian segment,” the company said.
It was stated that the ship was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on August 23 at 04:08 (MSK). His journey to the ISS took several days; of which 10 minutes were for near-Earth space delivery and almost two days for a stand-alone trip to the station in near-Earth orbit.
In addition to food, the ship also contained equipment for scientific experiments. The total mass of the delivered goods is 2495 kg.
Before that, the Indian lunar rover “Pragyan” loyalty Travel on the surface of the earth satellite.
Formerly India it happened the fourth “lunar power”.