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Progress M-11M cargo spacecraft is flying to the ISS (VIDEO)

Baikonur, Kazakhstan - After yesterday's successful lift-off

It occurred successfully on Tuesday, at 18:38 MSK, the launch of Progress M-11M cargo spacecraft from a Soyuz-U rocket, from launch pad number 1 of Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Roscosmos, Russian Federal Space Agency, unveiled today the parameters with which, after the lift-off, the rocket released the spacecraft into orbit: • min altitude – 193,96 km; • max altitude – 240,09 km; • revolutio...

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Rome, Italy, 06/22/2011 08:00
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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