What is Progress MS-06?
It’s a Russian spacecraft that was launched on June 14 and carrying cargo to the International Space Station (ISS). It lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz-2.1a launcher, reaching orbit less than nine minutes after blast-off. The Progress then began a series of thruster firings to guide its two-day journey to the space station. It docked with the ISS on Friday. Within 24 hours after its successful launch, Kazakh authorities reported that a fragment of the Soyuz rocket ignited dry grass and caused a fire in the Karaganda region, about 600 km from the launch site, at the planned impact site for the first stage of the launcher. It resulted in one person being killed and another injured while they were trying to extinguish the fire. The spaceship has around 2.7 metric tons of cargo and supplies to the ISS, according to NASA. These include fuel, water, food, compressed gases, medical and sanitary equipment, as well as nanosatellites to Russia’s Zvezda service module. — Agencies, Space.com
