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Undisclosed antenna “Progress M-19M” has not prevented safely Russian cargo ship to dock with the ISS.

April 26 at 16:25, Moscow time, Russia’s space truck “Progress M-19M” was successfully docked with the Russian module “Zvezda” in automatic mode. The ship was the 51st spacecraft, which is now docked with the International Space Stantsiey.Gruzovik delivered to the ISS, where at the moment there are 35 members of the crew, the 36th Expedition about 2 and a half tons of payload (water, fuel, oxygen, food food, equipment for experiments and spare parts).

remind you that earlier, after the spacecraft into orbit, one of its two antennas are designed for navigation and docking with the ISS, was not revealed. However, this did not prevent the ship successfully docked with the space station. Experts managed to reposition the antenna and make docking of spacecraft in the automatic mode.

Russian crew on board the ISS docking confirmed “Progress”. Currently on board the ISS is six crew members comprising: a crew commander Chris Hadfield (CSA), Flight Engineers Roman Romanenko, Pavel Vinogradov, Alexander Misurkin (Roscosmos), Thomas Mashburn and Christopher Cassidy (NASA).