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TapTechNews August 15th news, the Russian National Space Corporation announced today that the Soyuz-2.1a rocket was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to send the Progress MS-28 cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station.

It is known that the spacecraft will fly in the traditional two-day mode and will dock with the Zvezda module of the Russian section of the International Space Station at 8:56 Moscow time on August 17 ( 13:56 Beijing time on August 17). It is expected that the Progress MS-28 will last for 179 days during its flight at the space station.

The ship will deliver more than 2.6 tons of goods to the space station, including 950 kilograms of propellant for the space station, 420 kilograms of water, 50 kilograms of nitrogen for the space station, and 1200 kilograms of dry goods for the space station system and the International Space Station crew.

TapTechNews noticed that the Russian Progress MS-26 cargo spacecraft just ended its mission and separated from the International Space Station on August 13 and crashed into the non-navigable area in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean.

The Progress MS-26 cargo spacecraft was launched into space on February 15 this year on a Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and docked with the space station on February 17.

The cargo spacecraft delivered more than 2.5 tons of goods to the space station, including nearly 1.5 tons of space station system hardware and equipment, scientific experiment equipment, astronauts' clothes, food, medical and hygiene supplies, 580 kilograms of space station fuel, 420 kilograms of drinking water and 40 kilograms of nitrogen.