On February 24, at 11:30 Moscow time the new-series cargo transport vehicle Progress МS-05 successfully docked to the Docking Compartment (DC1) Pirs of the International Space Station (ISS).
On February 22, 2017 at 08:58:33 Moscow time the medium-capacity launch vehicle Soyuz-U with the cargo vehicle was launched from Site No.1 (Gagarin’s launch pad) of the Baikonur cosmodrome. Progress MS-05 was performing a classical two-day rendezvous with the station. The docking was conducted in an automatic mode.
The final approach process was monitored by Russian cosmonauts Sergey RYZHIKOV and Oleg NOVITSKIY.
Progress МS-05 delivered to the ISS 1326 kg of “dry cargo”, 600 kg of propellant in the refueling system tanks, 420 kg of water in Rodnik system tanks, as well as 52 kg of bottled compressed oxygen.
The cargo vehicle delivered various life support equipment for SM Zvezda, including filters for gas analytical hardware и water supply system, harmful contaminants devices, electric heater, absorbents and other auxiliary cargo items.
Packages, food ration containers and selections of fresh produce were prepared for the crewmembers. Among the sanitary hygienic support are napkins, towels, underwear sets, space coveralls. Medical kits for replacing expired medicinal preparations are provided for. The medical kits contain prophylactic and anti-inflammatory drugs, means preventing an adverse effect of weightlessness, as well as other drugs and nutritional supplements.
Sets of onboard data files, batteries and data media for video and photo equipment, portable player, consumables for scientific and experiment equipment (biological, biomedical investigations and space biotechnological experiments), onboard system maintenance and repair equipment, as well as individual protective gear, including spacecraft Orlan-ISS were delivered to the ISS.
A new-generation spacesuit Orlan-ISS produced by NPP Zvezda is designed for extravehicular activity of the cosmonauts and is equipped with the automatic thermal control system. Its rubber pressure envelopes are replaced with polyurethane ones. This made their lifetime half as much again. At present no more than 15 EVAs can be performed in the Russian spacesuits, but Orlan-ISS is suitable for up to 20 EVAs. The spacesuit “brains”, i.e. the computer and operating program have been also changed. The computer tests the spacesuit by 50 parameters and displays them on the liquid-crystal display.
Progress МС-05 also delivered 159 kg of US hardware, in particular the onboard data files, provisions and packages for the crew.