{"id":137548,"date":"2025-09-12T02:24:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T02:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137548\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T02:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T02:24:06","slug":"progress-93-supply-and-trash-removal-mission-headed-to-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/137548\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress 93 supply and trash removal mission headed to space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sept. 11 (UPI) &#8212; The unpiloted Progress 93 spacecraft is in orbit and en route to the International Space Station after a successful launch just before noon EDT Thursday from a spaceport in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The module will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/spacestation\/2025\/09\/11\/progress-93-cargo-craft-lifts-off-to-resupply-station-crew\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:travel for two days;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">travel for two days<\/a> prior to an autonomous docking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/station\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:at the ISS;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">at the ISS<\/a>, scheduled for just before 1:30 pm EDT Saturday. It is shuttling supplies to crew members aboard the ISS, including three tons of food, fuel and other essentials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The spacecraft is delivering about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies to the space station.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The module was launched atop a Russian Soyuz rocket, which jettisoned its side boosters about two minutes into the mission. The primary fuel cell burned for about three minutes before separating from the launch vehicle&#8217;s upper stage before the Progress 93 went into orbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is scheduled to stay docked at the ISS for about six months, when it will then leave loaded with astronaut trash, which will burn up, along with the vessel, as it<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17683-earth-atmosphere.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:re-enters the Earth&#039;s atmosphere;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> re-enters the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Progress 93 is the latest in a series of such launches. Progress 92 traveled to the ISS in July on a similar cargo carrying and trash removal mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 11 (UPI) &#8212; The unpiloted Progress 93 spacecraft is in orbit and en route to the International&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,9693,66,306],"class_list":["post-137548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-international-space-station","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}