Russia’s Progress 87 cargo ship arrives at International Space Station

Russia’s robotic Progress 87 freight ship got to the International Space Station early Saturday early morning (Feb. 17), providing about 3 lots of products.

Development 87 released towards the orbiting laboratory on Wednesday night (Feb. 14), riding a Soyuz rocket into the sky from the Russian-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The truck reached the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday at 1:06 a.m. EST (0606 GMT), while the 2 craft were flying about 260 miles (418 kilometers) above the South Pacific.

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The Development lorry, which is bring about 3 lots of food, fuel and other materials, docked autonomously, as prepared. Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub kept an eye on the procedure from inside the ISS on Saturday early morning– and were prepared to leap into action if they ‘d required to, as NASA authorities discussed in a post on Friday (Feb. 16)

“Kononenko and Chub invested Friday getting ready for the upcoming freight shipment by evaluating telerobotically run rendezvous system (TORU) treatments, which enables them to from another location manage a showing up spacecraft in the not likely occasion it might not immediately dock,” company authorities composed in the post.

Kononenko, who just recently set the world record for most time invested in areaand Chub are presently sharing the station with 5 other individuals: cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, NASA astronauts Loral O’Hara and Jasmin Moghbeli, Japan’s Satoshi Furukawa and the European Space Agency‘s Andreas Mogensen.

Borisov, Furukawa, Mogensen and Moghbeli reached the ISS last August on SpaceX‘s Crew-7 objective. The quartet will quickly go back to Earth and be changed on the orbiting laboratory by the 4 astronauts of Crew-8, arranged to launch no earlier than March 1

Editor’s note: This story was upgraded at 1:15 a.m. ET on Feb. 17 with news of effective docking.

Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer withSpace.comand signed up with the group in 2010. He mainly covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military area, however has actually been understood to meddle the area art beat. His book about the look for alien life, “Out There,” was released on Nov. 13, 2018. Before ending up being a science author, Michael worked as a herpetologist and wildlife biologist. He has a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology from the University of Sydney, Australia, a bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona, and a graduate certificate in science composing from the University of California, Santa Cruz. To learn what his most current task is, you can follow Michael on Twitter.