MOSCOW. Jan 18 (Interfax-AVN) - Enterprises under the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will have to make additional efforts to prepare for the launch of the Progress M-63 space cargo vehicle which was rescheduled from February 7 to February 5 at a NASA request, the space agency said in a statement published on the official web site.
"Works to prepare the launch of the Progress M-63 space cargo vehicle have continued. Yesterday evening, the spacecraft was unloaded from a vacuum camera," the statement says.
Officers of the Baikonur spaceport and the Energia space and rocket corporation delivered the cargo spacecraft and installed it on the test stand.
The Progress M-63 will deliver fuel components, scientific equipment, consumables, and food and oxygen supplies to the crewmembers of the 16th main expedition to the International Space Station (ISS).