Rocket Soyuz-U with cargo ship Progress М-65 to be launched today
Baikonur. September 10. Kazakhstan Today - The rocket Soyuz-U with the cargo ship Progress М-65 will be launched today from Baikonur, the agency reports referring to a source at the cosmodrome.
Final operations on preparation for launch of the rocket Soyuz-U with the cargo transport ship established on launch pad on September, 8 are being carried out today on the launch complex of the platform №1.
The State Commission that will hold the session today in the second half of the day will accept the decision on refueling of the rocket carrier with the components of rocket fuel and launch. Technical management and the members of the State Commission will sum up preparation of the rocket for space purposes, a launcher, and other objects of surface space infrastructure of the cosmodrome involved in launch of the rocket Soyuz-U with the cargo space ship Progress М-65.
The rocket Soyuz-U with the cargo transport space ship Progress М-65 will be launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on September 11 at 01.50 Astana time (September 10 at 23.50 Moscow time) from launcher №5 of the platform №1.
The cargo transport space ship Progress М-65 will deliver to ISS about 2.5 tons of cargoes: fuel for maintenance of the orbit of the station, foodstuffs, fresh fruit, water, and scientific equipment, compact discs with films and music, and space suit Orlan-MK of the fifth generation made by the Research, Development & Production Enterprise Zvezda. The space suit Orlan-MK weighting 120 kg is intended for 15 spacewalks.
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