Russian Progress MS-16 Unmanned cargo ship launched with supply to the international space station

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An unmanned Russian cargo ship was successfully launched on Monday by cargo for the International Space Station (ISS).

The Progress MS-16 cargo ship exploded as scheduled at 9:45 am local time (9:15 am IST) from the Baikonur Russian launch facility in Kazakhstan and reached a designated orbit en route to the station .

It will carry water, propellant, and other supplies and will be ready for dock at the space station Wednesday.

The spacecraft is run by Kate Rubins of NASA, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, astronaut Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Soichi Noguchi and Sergey Ryzhikov of the Russian Space Agency and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov.

Last November, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, called Resilience with the crew of three Americans and one Japanese astronaut, was put down by the ISS 27 hours after they launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral , Florida, USA. The space station will be their home for the next six months. After that, they will be replaced by another set of astronauts on Crew Dragon capsule. That orbit will continue until Boeing enters the program with its own spacecraft late next year.

The Resilience team includes Crew Dragon chief Mike Hopkins and two NASA astronauts: mission pilot Victor Glover and physicist Shannon Walker. They are joined by Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, making his third space trip after flying in the US shuttle in 2005 and Soyuz in 2009.

Another U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts are aboard the space station from a previous mission.

“Welcome to the ISS. We can’t wait to be on board,” said Kate Rubins, a U.S. astronaut already on the space station.

Prior to receiving its flight certificate from NASA last week, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon had been under development for about a decade under NASA’s public-private program that began in 2011 to enable human spaceflight. revitalize the group.

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