Progress M-22M cargo vehicle undocked from the ISS on April 7 and performing controlled flight will be deorbited on Friday and sank in the Pacific Ocean, - MCC representative reports.

Soyuz-U booster with Egyptian EgyptSat-2 successfully launched from Baikonur spaceport on April 16, 2014.

On Monday Progress M-22M cargo vehicle docked to the ISS will be sent to free flight lasting up to April 18 during which Radar - Progress scientific experiment will be carried out on its board, Mission Control Cenrtre representative reports.

Spaceport specialists filled the vehicle with propellant components and pressurized gas at the filling station. Then the vehicle returned to the integration building of 254th site for further pre-launch preparations.

Cosmonaut Valeri Kubasov twice Hero of the Soviet Union and participant of the famous Apollo-Soyuz program died on Wednesday evening at the age of 79, - RSC Energia reports.

Progress-MS modernized cargo vehicles will fly to the ISS since 2015. The improvements and introduced gradually and already being practiced on Progress-M, - RSC Energia Head Deputy Nickolay Bryukhanov reported.

Progress M-22M cargo vehicle tests are under way at Baikonur spaceport. The vehicle is to be launched to the ISS early February 2014.

Russian cargo vehicle Progress M-21M successfully carried out ISS rendezvous maneuver testing a new “Kurs-NA” docking system. After this maneuver the spaceship retreated to a safe distance from the ISS (less than 100 km) in order to dock with the station on Saturday (November 30).

Roscosmos informed NASA that MLM will not become a part of the ISS in 2014, - the head of Roscosmos Manned Space flight programs Alexey Krasnov told journalists.Earlier MLM was supposed to be launched to the ISS in December 2013.

The International Space Station is a stronghold of the mankind on the orbit. It goes round the Earth 16 times a day at the height of about 400 km. The ISS is the largest flying object, designed by leading space countries.