Soyuz Launches Progress M1-7 to Space Station

A Soyuz FG successfully launched Progress M1-7 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, pad LC 1, at 18:24 UTC (10:24 a.m. PDT) on November 26. The Progress will fly a two-day approach to the International Space Station and is scheduled to make an automatic docking to the station's rear-facing port on the Zvezda service module at 1945 UTC May 23 11:45 a.m. PDT November 28). The new space staion crew of Yuri Onufrienko, Carl Weitz and Dan Bursch will unpack it.

The Progress is also carrying a rhomb-shaped Kolibri student satellite. The satellite is a collaborative project between children of Russia and Australia. The 27 kg (60 lbm) satellite is equipped with scientific devices for various kinds of research. The satellite will stay in space attached to a remote launching port on the Progress spacecraft until February 2002. It will then be remotely ejected and free-fall back to earth over the following 2-4 months. It will send back telemetry and digital voice recordings. One of the downlink frequencies will be 145.825. The Kolibri satellite is a modification of a de-commissioned military communications satellite. 

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