Moscow, May 21 – The Soyuz-2.1a rocket with the MS-23 Progress cargo spacecraft, which will provide a workplace for outer space, the Baumann nanosatellite with a solar sail and equipment for a crystal growth experiment, was installed on the launch pad of the Baikonur cosmodrome to the International Space Station, on Sunday in the channel ” Roscosmos Telegram.
The launch of the rocket is scheduled for 15.56 Moscow time on May 24.
Roscosmos stated that the truck will transport about 2.5 tons of cargo to the International Space Station, including nearly 500 kilograms of fuel for refueling the station, 630 kilograms of drinking water and 40 kilograms of nitrogen. Also, resource equipment, tools, consumables, clothing, food, health and hygiene products are packed into Progress.
The spacecraft will bring to the station the URM-D Global Workstation, which astronauts will install on the outside of the Zvezda module of the Russian portion of the ISS during their spacewalk. Another work in outer space is the launch of the Parus-MGTU nanosatellite, which will be used to test solar sail technology. The satellite and launcher will also be delivered by the MS-23 Progress.
In addition, a spectroscopic video-surface monitoring system for the Uragan experiment, a Glavbox-S glove box, and apparatus and equipment for sterilization, spinach, rectification, neuroimmunity, and separation experiments will arrive with the truck. “Vampire” monolithic crystals.
The rocket was painted with pictures dedicated to the 300th anniversary of Perm and the 60th anniversary of the flight of the first woman (Valentina Tereshkova) into space. Tereshkova’s three-day flight on the Vostok-6 spacecraft took place on June 16-19, 1963.
