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According to a spokesman for Mission Control, Progress -M54 was deorbited and sunk in the Pacific at 4:53 p.m. Moscow time, 3rd March, 2006 (1:53 GMT).
At 4:05 p.m. the Progress-M54, was given a deceleration burn. The parts of the craft that did not burn up in the dense atmosphere layers sunk in a "spacecraft cemetery" at 40° longitude in the Pacific a short distance from Christmas Island.

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The unmanned Russian Progress M54 spaceship carrying food and equipment has successfully docked with the International Space Station.

"Everything went excellently" - mission control spokesman.

The Russian-built cargo ship docked at the aft end of the station's Zvezda service module at 1442 GMT, seven minutes earlier than originally planned.

They are expected to open the spacecraft's hatch at about 1745 GMT today.


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The Soyuz rocket blasts off today carrying the Progress spacecraft.




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Among the cargo carrier's more than 2.6 tons of cargo is a new liquids unit for the Russian Elektron oxygen generator. The unit has been out of operation since late May.
The crew has relied on Solid Fuel Oxygen Generator (SFOG) "candles" and oxygen from Progress and Station tanks to replenish the orbiting laboratory's atmosphere. The Elektron uses water as a raw material, dividing it into hydrogen, which is vented overboard, and oxygen.



Progress 19 has been fitted with 14 extra tanks. They enable it to carry an additional 60 kg of oxygen and air, for a total of just over 110 kg. Also aboard are 16 new SFOGs.

The total Progress 19 cargo weight is just over 2374 kg. That includes 798 kg of propellant for attitude control thrusters, more than 197 litres of water and about 1225 kg of dry cargo.
That dry cargo consists of equipment and supplies, experiment hardware, spare parts for the Russian Vozdukh carbon dioxide removal system and food. That food is one reason a Progress arrival is a happy occasion, despite the hard work involved in unloading and stowing cargo items.

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The Soyuz-U launch vehicle and the Progress M-54 spacecraft successfully lifted off from the Baikonur launching site in Kazakhstan at 1:07 p.m. GMT (5:07 p.m. Moscow time), heading for the International Space Station.

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The 19th Progress supply spacecraft to the International Space Station docks to the Zvezda module at 14:50 GMT, Sept. 10.
NASA TV docking coverage starts at 13:30 GMT.

The ship will deliver more than 5000 pounds of food, water, oxygen, spare parts and other supplies. Aboard the Station, Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and NASA Flight Engineer and Science Officer John Phillips are in the fifth month of a six -month mission.

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09/06/2005 Baikonur Cosmodrome, at 5:00 a.m. Moscow Time, the transporter with the Soyuz-U launch vehicle and the Progress M-54 spacecraft left the Assembly and Testing Facility and arrived to the launch pad for the final pre-launch processing.



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A Progress 19 cargo ship atop a Starsem Soyuz rocket will be launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, to the International Space Station with provisions for the crew of Expedition 11, on September 8th, 2005, 13:08 GMT.

The unmanned Progress 19 cargo ship will ferry supplies and new equipment to the crew of Expedition 11 aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
The cargo ship is set to launch on September 8th and dock at the ISS two days later on Sept. 10 at 1450 GMT. NASA TV will provide live coverage of Progress 19 docking operations starting at 1330 GMT.

The Expedition 11 crew will undock Progress 18 - currently docked at the aft end of the Russian-built Zvezda service module at the station - on Sept. 7 at about 0823 GMT to make room for the orbital delivery.
About 2.5 tons of cargo will launch aboard the Progress 19 spacecraft, including fresh food, water and assorted spare parts, to resupply Expedition 11 commander Sergei Krikalev and flight engineer John Phillips. The cargo delivery will mark the second Progress launched toward the ISS during the ISS Expedition 11 mission and the third resupply flight.

In addition to Progress 18, which Krikalev manually docked at the ISS on June 18, the space shuttle Discovery restocked the station's cupboards and tanks during more than eight days of joint operations between July 28 and Aug. 6. The shuttle delivered about six tons of cargo and removed three tons of trash, broken equipment and unneeded items.

-- Edited by Blobrana at 02:30, 2005-08-27

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