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Progress MS-06
Mission typeISS resupply
OperatorRoscosmos
COSPAR ID2017-033A Edit this at Wikidata
SATCAT no.42756Edit this on Wikidata
Spacecraft properties
SpacecraftProgress MS-06 (No.436)
Spacecraft typeProgress-MS
ManufacturerRKK Energia
Start of mission
Launch datePlanned: 15 June 2017 [1]
RocketSoyuz-2.1a
Launch siteBaikonur 1/5
ContractorRoscosmos
Docking with ISS
Docking portZvezda aft
Docking datePlanned: 5 May 2017
Progress ISS Resupply
 

Progress MS-06 ([Прогресс МC-06] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)), identified by NASA as Progress 67 or 67P, is a Progress spacecraft to be used by Roscosmos to resupply the International Space Station (ISS). It will also remove the Pirs module and deorbit it

Launch

Progress MS-6 It is planned to be launched on 3 May 2017 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It will use a Soyuz-2.1a rocket.[2][3]

Docking

Progress MS-6 is scheduled to dock with the Pirs module which it will remove from the space station.

Cargo

The Progress MS-6 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. ^ "SpaceFlightNow Launch Schedule". SpaceFlightNow. Retrieved 2017-03-01.
  2. ^ Clark, Stephen (July 11, 2016). "Launch Schedule – Spacecflightnow". Retrieved 2016-07-18.
  3. ^ NASA Office of Inspector General (June 28, 2016). NASA’s Response to SpaceX’s June 2015 Launch Failure: Impacts on Commercial Resupply of the International Space Station (PDF) (Report). NASA Office of Inspector General. p. 13. Retrieved 2016-07-18.