MOSCOW. Aug 25 (Interfax) - Russia's Progress MS-24 resupply spacecraft, which blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Wednesday, has docked with the International Space Station (ISS), a Roscosmos livestream shows.
The Progress MS-24 docked with the Zvezda module of the Russian segment aboard the ISS at 6:45 a.m. on Friday after a two-day journey.
The docking operation took place autonomously under the control of specialists at the TsNIImash Mission Control Center and the Russian crew on board the ISS.
The Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle carrying the Progress MS-24 freighter lifted off from Area 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 4:08 a.m. on August 23. The spacecraft will spend 174 days in orbit, Roscosmos said.
Progress MS-24 has delivered 2,495 kilograms of cargoes, including 500 kilograms of fuel, 420 kilograms of drinking water, 40 kilograms of nitrogen, and 1,535 kilograms of medical and hygiene products, food, clothes, operational equipment, tools and materials for Expedition 69 and scientific experiments.
The SOVA-2-228 and SOVA-2-426 orientation systems for video spectral equipment built in Belarus for the Uragan experiment to test technical means and methods for monitoring the development of natural and manmade disasters on Earth or their forerunners have also been brought to the ISS, Roscosmos said.