Soyuz-FG rocket was successfully launched by Russian Progress 71 cargo to the International Space Station(ISS). It carried three tons of fuel, food and supplies. Launched at 1:14 p.m. EST from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, it is an unpiloted mission, an U.S. state agency news read.
Navigational antennas and solar arrays were deployed as planned, when the resupply ship reached its preliminary orbit. On Nov 18, Sunday, at 2:30 p.m., the ship will be docked and NASA’s live coverage of it will start at 1:45 p.m. Before docking, it will make 34 orbits of earth.
Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket with Cygnus cargo spacecraft is bound for launch at 4:01 a.m. tomorrow from Pad oA of Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport to the International Space Station. Two more cargo resupply ships are scheduled to reach the crew in the coming days.
Source 1: blogs.nasa.gov
Source 2: www.spacedaily.com
