Russia To Launch Satellites And Supplies For ISS

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A file image of a Progess on route to the space station.

Moscow (AFP) Jun 02, 2005
Russia will launch three satellites and supplies for the international space station (ISS) over the next month, the Russian space agency said Thursday.

On June 17, the spacecraft Progress M-53 will be launched with 2.5 tonnes of supplies on a Soyuz-U rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which celebrated its 50th anniversary on Thursday, an agency spokesman told ITAR-TASS news agency.

Two astronauts, Russian Sergei Krikalev and American John Phillips, have been aboard the ISS since April 17.

Four days later, a military satellite Monia 3K will be put in orbit by a Molnia-M rocket from the Plessetsk launch site in north-west Russia.

On the same day another satellite will be launched on a Volna rocket fired from a nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea in northern Russia.

On June 23, a telecommunications satellite express-AMS will be put in orbit by a Proton-K rocket from Baikonur.

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