[Destro]

Lets just call it Russian rocket and be done with it?

[Ivan Ivanov]

Today Feb 2, the automatic cargo ship "Progress - M47" by 16:09 (Moscow time) was launched to the orbit by rocket of middle class "SOYUS-U".

February 4 at 17:50 of the Moscow time it must arrive to the International Space Station, and to deliver about 2,568 kilograms of a cargo, including fuel, containers with food for astronauts, parcels, and sets of the documentation.

Besides in connection with probable suspension of flights of the American space shuttles to ISS, connected with Columbia accident, "Progress - M47" must to lift station's orbit, by work of the engines of Russian rocket.

It is the 100-th start of the cargo space ship "Progress - M47".