ISS Cargo Delivery
Roscosmos Progress 96 Spacecraft Successfully Docks With International Space Station
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The uncrewed Roscosmos Progress 96 spacecraft docked autonomously with the International Space Station’s Poisk module on Sept. 19 after a three-day journey from Kazakhstan. It delivered about three tons of food, fuel and other supplies for the Expedition 75 crew and is expected to remain attached for roughly five months. The spacecraft launched Sept. 16 aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and will later make a planned destructive reentry to dispose of station trash.
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Progress 96 docked with the space-facing port of the Poisk module at 9:44 a.m. EDT on Sept. 19, according to mission logs.
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The supplies are intended to support the seven astronauts and cosmonauts currently living and working aboard the station.
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Progress 96 replaced Progress 94, which departed the ISS on Sept. 7 after previously occupying the Poisk module’s docking port.
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Progress is one of four current ISS cargo spacecraft, alongside Japan’s HTV-X, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus and SpaceX’s Dragon; Dragon is the only one in that group designed to return cargo via a parachute-assisted ocean splashdown rather than destructive atmospheric reentry.
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NASA provided live online coverage of the spacecraft’s rendezvous and autonomous docking through NASA Live and its station communications channels.
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