On April 4, at 17:22 MSK, the transport cargo vehicle Progress MS-11 docked to the Pirs module of the International Space Station (ISS), becoming the fastest spacecraft in the history of space flights to the ISS, the Roscosmos’s web page reports.
Earlier, on April 4, at 14:01 MSK, Progress MS-11 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome’s launch pad №31. The spacecraft reached the ISS in a record time of 3 hours and 21 minutes using the two-orbit maneuver.
The two-orbit approach maneuver developed by the Rocket and Space Corporation Energiya was first used to launch the transport cargo ship to the orbital station in July of last year, when Progress MS-09 transport cargo vehicle was launched to the ISS.