The Russian freighter flies to the ISS

Washington, November 17 (IANS) The Russian Progress 71 caravan successfully launched a Soyuz-FG rocket on the International Space Station (ISS), a first since the failure of the last crewed mission of October 11, NASA announced.

The Russian spacecraft Progress 71 unmanned was launched at 13:14. The US space agency said Friday in a statement that the east of the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan

The replenishment vessel reached the preliminary orbit and deployed its solar panels and navigation antennas as planned.

It carries nearly three tons of food, fuel and supplies for the ISS crew.

It will perform 34 Earth orbits before being moored at the orbital laboratory at 14:30. on Sunday.

Progress 71 will remain docked at the ISS for more than four months before departing in March to desorb into the Earth 's atmosphere.

On October 11, the Soyuz MS-10 space shuttle was launched with Nick Hague, a member of the Expedition 57 crew, and Alexey Ovchinin, from Roscosmos.

When the Soyuz spacecraft went into orbit, an anomaly occurred, causing a downstream abandonment. The crew was quickly found in good condition.

According to NASA, there was a "problem with the booster" and the crew returned to Earth in ballistic descent mode, which corresponds to a sharper angle of descent than normal.

Roscosmos also completed an investigation into the loss of a Soyuz rocket in October, which resulted in the suspension of Russian rocket fire on the station.

One of the four first-stage rocket engines was abnormally separated and hit the second-stage rocket that resulted in the loss of Soyuz stabilization on October 11, Roscosmos said in describing the cause of the Anomaly caused.

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