Moscow: Russia on Wednesday managed to launch an unmanned sun room that brought supplies to the International Space Station from Nelayonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Soyuz’s rocket carrying a spacecraft launched at 2:27 a.m.
Morning Moscow (2327 GMT) from Kazakh Steppes and reached the target orbit, said the Space Agency Roscosmos in a statement.
Docking with ISS is scheduled to take place at 0402 Morning Moscow Time (0102 GMT) Friday and will automatically.
The progress of MS-17 carries more than 470 kilograms of fuel, 420 liters of water and various other supplies.
The Russian room program was famous for sending the first person to space in 1961 and launched the first satellite, Sputnik 1, four years earlier, and his achievements remained the main source of national pride.
But over the past decade the country has experienced a series of setbacks, especially losing satellite and expensive progress ship.
Russia launched a cargo ship to the space station
