OREANDA-NEWS  The Soyuz-2 rocket.1a" launched the Progress M S-22 cargo ship into near-Earth orbit. Then he will fly independently to the International Space Station (ISS). There is a live broadcast on the official website of Roscosmos.

The rocket was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome today, February 9, 2023. Launch time: at 9.15 Moscow time. Progress will have to fly around the Earth 34 times before docking with the ISS at 11.47 Moscow time on February 11.

Progress MS-22 will deliver more than 2.5 tons of cargo to the ISS. These are 1,354 kilograms of dry cargo for the crew and station systems, 720 kilograms of fuel, 420 liters of drinking water, 40 kilograms of nitrogen, equipment for space research: Splanh, Neuroimmunity, Correction, Impact, Terminator and 3D printing. Shortly before the flight of the new truck, a place was vacated for it on the ISS. Progress MS-20 undocked from the Zvezda service module on February 7 and was then sunk in the Pacific Ocean.