Russia’s Soyuz rocket delivers Progress MS-29 resupply ship into orbit

KOROLYOV /Moscow Region/, November 21. /TASS/. A Russian Soyuz 2.1a carrier rocket has delivered the Progress MS-29 resupply ship into the transfer orbit, a TASS correspondent reported from the Flight Control Center on Thursday.
It will take about two days for the Progress MS-29 space freighter to travel to the International Space Station (ISS). The resupply ship is set to dock to the Poisk module of the ISS Russian segment at 5:36 p.m. Moscow time (2:36 p.m. GMT) on November 23.
The Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle with the Progress MS-29 resupply ship blasted off at 3:22 p.m. Moscow time (12:22 p.m. GMT) from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on November 21. This has been the fourth launch of the Progress MS resupply ship and the seventh liftoff of the Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome this year.
The Progress MS-29 resupply ship will deliver 2,487 kg of cargo to the orbital outpost, including 869 kg of refueling propellant, 420 liters of potable water and 43 kg of pressurized nitrogen, and also 1,155 kg of material and equipment in the dry cargo hold, in particular, for experiments dubbed Vampire (growing crystals in an electric vacuum furnace), BTN-Neutron-2 (studying the neutron spectrum) and 3D Print (3D printing of polymer materials).
Andrey Vedernikov, head of the space food department at the Research Institute of Food Concentrate Industry and Special Food Technology, told TASS earlier that the Progress MS-29 spacecraft would deliver dried venison and horsemeat, canned fish, meat and vegetables, horseradish, adjika, mustard, soups, cottage cheese, porridge, coffee, cocoa and tea drinks, as well as fresh fruit and sweets to Russian cosmonauts working aboard the orbital outpost.
Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin said that the resupply ship would also bring New Year’s gifts to the ISS.
The Progress MS is a Russian automated cargo spacecraft developed specially for servicing orbital stations. It is used to deliver various cargo to the orbital outpost (propellant, scientific equipment, oxygen, potable water, food and other items), and also to adjust its orbit.