10 Facts About Progress MS-04

Progress MS-04, identified by NASA as Progress 65P, was a Progress mission launched by Roscosmos in an unsuccessful attempt to resupply the International Space Station .

Progress MS-04 was launched into orbit on the Soyuz-U rocket before the switch to a new-generation Soyuz-2 family, which did not depend on avionics produced in Ukraine.

The mission of Progress MS-04 was previously scheduled for 1 July 2016, but it later slipped back, along with the rest of the ISS flight manifest.

Progress MS-04 carried a number of significant items, including the upgraded Orlan-MKS spacesuit for Russian spacewalks, a mini-greenhouse and an experimental system to recycle water and urine, the official Russian TASS news agency reported.

Progress MS-04 was launched on 1 December 2016 at 14:51:52 UTC from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Related searches

The Progress MS-04 mission was to use the two-day, 34-orbit trip to the station instead of the previously available six-hour rendezvous profile.

Progress MS-04 spacecraft was carrying about 2450 kg of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station.

Progress MS-04 was scheduled to dock with the aft docking port of the Zvezda module.

Preliminary investigation found that the Progress MS-04 had separated from the third stage six minutes and 23 seconds into launch, and that third stage telemetry failed.

On 28 January 2017, the Russian government announced as a result of the investigation into Progress MS-04 the recall of all Proton-M 2nd and 3rd stage engines produced by the Voronezh Mechanical Plant including the disassembly of three completed Proton rockets and a three and a half month suspension of flights.