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Filling station site 31 Baikonur began to prepare to work with the cargo ship "Progress M-12M"Today, at a gas station site 31 Baikonur calculations FSUE TsENKI Space Center «South» have begun to prepare equipment and facilities for the upcoming gas station refueling propellant components and compressed gases propulsion cargo transport spacecraft «Progress M-12M.»The ship is in a vacuum chamber 254 spaceport site, where it ends check for leaks. Upon completion of works in a vacuum chamber, the ship will return to the stand after the final processing operations, checks for leaks and to prepare for refueling, will be delivered on a platform 31 for refueling. Launch space rocket «Soyuz-U» with the cargo ship «Progress M-12M» is scheduled for August 24. Cargo ship should be delivered to the international space station, more than 2.5 tons of payload: the components of fuel to maintain orbit stations, scientific equipment, food, water and air for astronauts expendable equipment. Source: www.roscosmos.ru
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