Progress MS-05

Progress MS-05
Mission type ISS resupply
Operator Roscosmos
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft Progress MS-05 (No.435)
Spacecraft type Progress-MS
Manufacturer RKK Energia
Start of mission
Launch date Planned: ?? ?? 2017
Rocket Soyuz-U
Launch site Baikonur 31/6
Contractor Roscosmos
Docking with ISS
Docking port Pirs nadir
Docking date Planned: ?? ?? 2017

Progress ISS Resupply
 Progress MS-04 Progress MS-06

Progress MS-05 (Russian: Прогресс МC-05), identified by NASA as Progress 66 or 66P, is a Progress spacecraft to be used by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS).

Launch

Progress MS-5 It is planned to be launched on ?? ??, 2017 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It will use the last Soyuz-U rocket.[1]

Docking

Progress MS-5 was scheduled to dock with the nadir docking port of the Pirs module, this is likely to be changed in the aft docking port of the Zvesda-module after the Progress MS-4 loss.

Cargo

The Progress MS-5 spacecraft will carry about 2450 kg of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station. The spacecraft will deliver food, fuel and supplies, including 705 kg of propellant, 50 kg of oxygen and air, 420 kg of water.

References

  1. Clark, Stephen (July 11, 2016). "Launch Schedule – Spacecflightnow". Retrieved 2016-07-18.
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