MOSCOW. May 24 (Interfax) - A Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle carrying the Progress MS-23 resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31 at 3:56 p.m. Moscow time, as follows from Roscosmos's live broadcast.
The spacecraft should follow the so-called super-fast-track two-orbit rendezvous profile, which should take it approximately three hours and 25 minutes to dock with the Poisk module of the Russian segment of the ISS at about 7:21 p.m. Moscow time.
The Progress MS-23 is to spend about six months in orbit, according to Roscosmos.