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RE: Progress M-59 Launch

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The Progress M-59 space cargo ship loaded with rubbish from the International Space Station has undocked.
It will burn up over the Pacific ocean at 7:26 p.m. GMT (23:26 Moscow time ).

"The ship has undocked from the ISS in normal mode" - Mission Control spokesman.

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The Progress M-59 cargo ship that is currently docked to the International Space Station (ISS) is to be undocked on the 1st August, and be de-orbited into the Pacific ocean.

"The flight of the Progress M-59 cargo ship as part of the ISS is nearing completion, and its undocking from the station is planned for August 1, at 6:02 p.m. Moscow time (2:02 p.m. GMT)" - Mission Control Spokesperson.

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The Progress spacecraft has successfully docked with the International Space Station.
Cosmonauts Mikhail Tyurin, Michael Lopez Alegria and Sunita Williams will begin to unload the 2.5 tonnes of cargo over the next few days.

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TLE Data

PROGRESS-M 59

1 29714U 07002A 07019.84524127 .00229912 36419-4 22502-3 0 90
2 29714 051.6319 150.5739 0044861 044.9213 092.4125 16.08631299 251

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An unmanned Russian cargo ship blasted off Thursday to the international space station to deliver supplies and equipment for its three-person crew, space officials said.
The Progress M-59 lifted off atop a Soyuz-U booster rocket at 5:12 a.m. from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and entered orbit about nine minutes later, said Nikolai Kryuchkov, a spokesman for the Federal Space Agency.
The ship was expected to dock at the station at 6 a.m. on Saturday to deliver 2 1/2 tons of fuel, spacewalk gear and other supplies for the two American astronauts and the Russian cosmonaut currently on board the station.

Source

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A Russian Soyuz rocket will launch the Progress 24P cargo spaceship to the International Space Station, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 02:12 GMT, on January 18th, 2007.