Two cargo missions launch to space station within week

Two cargo missions launch to space station within week

New Delhi: On September 11, the Progress 93 cargo shuttle launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, spending two days in orbit before docking autonomously to the aft port on the Zvezda module of the International Space Station (ISS) on 13 September. The autonomous Progress craft was carrying three tons of food, fuel and supplies to the ISS. At that time, the Cygnus XL cargo craft by Northrop Grumman was on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 at …