Space
American, Japanese, and Russian to the space station ISS launched
The Docking to the ISS is supposed to be safer – with a modernized Soyuz capsule. Three astronauts left the International space station, to test the new capsule extensively.
The US-astronaut Kathleen Rubins, and Japanese Takuya Onishi, and the Russian Anatoly Ivanishin launched from the Russian Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, such as the flight control center in Moscow, the Agency told Tass.
The flight to the Outpost of humanity, some 400 kilometers above the earth, this time should take a good two days, instead of the last of the usual six hours. At 34 earth orbits, the space driver to test the new capsule-type Soyuz-MS.
Exp 48-49 launch aboard #Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft beginning a 2-day trip and 4-month mission on space station.https://t. co/xqY7azRTtE
— Intl. Space Station (@Space_Station) 7. July 2016
Delay of two weeks
In the space ship, among other things, the engines are arranged differently, causing the Dock to be on the ISS safe, said the cosmonaut Ivanishin before the Start. Due to additional Software Tests on the modernized capsule of the Start had been delayed by two weeks.
Ruby, Onishi and Ivanishin are scheduled to arrive on Saturday morning on the ISS. There, they reinforce the previous crew, a US Astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts belong to.
cr/sti (dpa, afp)