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Progress MS-10 logistics spacecraft received authorization to proceed with fuelling

Russian Aviaton » Tuesday November 6, 2018 11:53 MSK
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Preparations continue for the launch of logistics spacecraft Progress MS-10 under the International Space Station program. 
The technical management at the Baikonur launch site have conformed that the spacecraft is ready for filling with propellant components and compressed gases.

According to the decision, authorization to proceed with operations at the filling station was given with regard to the integrated propulsion system and the refueling system of the logistics spacecraft. The filling station equipment is ready for the operations.

Operations to fill the logistics spacecraft with propellant components are scheduled for November 6 and 7.

The launch of the cargo spacecraft Progress MS-10 on the launch vehicle Soyuz-FG from Baikonur Cosmodrome is scheduled for November 16, 2018. The spacecraft will deliver to the ISS about 2.5 tons of various cargos, including dry cargo, propellant in the tanks of the integrated propulsion system and the refueling system, water and compressed gases.