A Russian craft set the new speed record during a trip to the International Space Station. It took less than four hours for the ship Progress MS-09 to reach the station.
Less than four hours to reach the space station
Russian engineers managed to set a new record for the journey that separates Earth from the International Space Station. The ship Progress took less than four hours to reach the station. His mission was to bring fuel, food and other supplies to the occupants of the ISS.
Images of the take-off and docking of the Progress vessel MS-09:
The machine Progress MS-09 took off at the scheduled time from Kazakhstan, specifically at the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 17:51. docked at the station at 21:31, only three hours and forty minutes after take-off. If he had taken the clbadic route, it would have taken two days to reach it. But with this time, the MS-09 breaks the record of the MS-07 set last February, which was then five hours and thirty-nine minutes.
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Progress Ship – Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons
As a result, the spacecraft cargo had to start its engines at very precise times in order to move to higher orbits and adjust its speed accordingly. He also had to adapt to the displacement of the ISS. The Russian engineers have carried out their mission perfectly and have thus set a new record.
