MOSCOW, February 17 The Progress MS-26 cargo spacecraft docked with the Russian module «Zvezda» of the International Space Station, follows from the broadcast of Roscosmos.
The Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with a truck launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 06:25 Moscow time on February 15.
Progress delivered more than two and a half tons of cargo to the station: almost one and a half tons of apparatus and equipment for the station's systems, packaging for scientific experiments, clothing, food, medical and sanitary products for the astronauts, as well as fuel for refueling the station, drinking water and nitrogen supply.
Among the cargo are consumables for the new scientific experiment «Fullerene» to grow fullerite crystals in the laboratory module «Science» — the third crystalline form of carbon, representing a new class of semiconductors. In addition, Progress MS-26 brought equipment for a new scientific experiment, Orbita-MG, to create a monitoring system that will detect cracks and other leaks in the space station body.
Currently the crew of the 70th long-term expedition is working on the ISS — Russians Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and Konstantin Borisov, NASA astronauts Jasmine Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Japanese Satoshi Furukawa.
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