In accordance with the program of flights to the International Space Station Today, June 30, 2021, at 02:27:20 Moscow time from the launcher No. 6 of the site No. 31 (“Vostok”) of the Baikonur cosmodrome, a successful launch of the carrier missile was performed ” Soyuz-2.1A “with the transport freight ship” Progress MS-17 “. After 8 minutes, 49 seconds recorded a regular separation of the ship and the third stage of the carrier, then the solar panels and antennas were revealed.
Soyuz-2.1A carrier rocket successfully brought the Russian spacecraft to the target orbit. Specialists of the main operative group of flight management of the Russian segment of the International Space Station (Rocket and Space Corporation “Energy” named after S.P. Queen, part of the state corporation “Roskosmos”) started managing flight.
Orbit parameters of the removal of the GRADOW MS-17 freight ship:
- Couch period – 88.54 min;
- orbit – 51.67 degrees;
- Minimum orbit height – 193 km;
- Maximum height of orbits – 240 km.
Autonomous flight of the Progress MS-17 cargo ship to the International Space Station will be held on a two-day scheme, docking to the small research module “Search” of the Russian segment is scheduled for July 2, 2021 at 04:02 Moscow time. The approach is planned to be carried out automatically under the control of specialists of the Center for Flight Management TsNIIMASH (Roscosmos) and Russian members of the crew of the ISS-65 Expedition – Astronauts of Roscosmos Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrov.
It will deliver to the ISS 470 kg of fuel refueling, 420 liters of drinking water in the pots of the Spring system, 40 kg of air and oxygen in cylinders, as well as 1,509 kg of various equipment and materials in the cargo compartment, including resource equipment and technical equipment Service Systems, Styling for Space Experiments, Medical Control and Sanitary Supplies, Clothing Items, Standard Food Measures and Fresh Products for the 65th Long Expedition Crew.
In addition, a set of target loads will go to the station as part of the implementation of the Russian scientific and applied research program and experiments:
- Laying “Neurolab” for conducting medical experiments “Pilot-T” to study the influence of long-term space flight factors on the quality of the professional activity of cosmonauts;
- Correction Experimental materials for the development of effective means of preventing cosmonaut bone changes Under the conditions of weightlessness;
- Biorish and Constanta-2 stacking to study the influence of space flight factors on the condition of complex protein compounds and survival of microorganisms;
- The “Probiotit” experiment is aimed at developing Technologies for the production of pharmacological products with immunomodulating properties in microgravity conditions;
- UV atmosphere equipment provides detailed mapping of the global nightlife structure of the earth’s atmosphere to study meteorological processes and space weather.