Progress MS-28 cargo spacecraft with food, equipment for ISS placed in orbit

A Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket has taken the Progress MS-28 cargo spacecraft carrying food and equipment for the International Space Station (ISS) to orbit, a TASS correspondent reported from Russia’s mission control center, TASS reports. 

It is expected to reach the ISS in about two days.

The carrier rocket with the cargo spacecraft was launched at 6:20 a.m. Moscow time (3:20 a.m. GMT) from the Baikonur spaceport.

As reported earlier, the Progress MS-28 cargo spacecraft will be taken to orbit by a Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket from the Baikonur spaceport on Thursday.

It will deliver over 2.6 tons of cargo to the International Space Station (ISS).

Russian state aerospace corporation Roscosmos said that the launch is scheduled for 6:20 a.m. Moscow time (3:20 a.m. GMT).