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Resupply Craft Docking Aborted

July 3, 2010 by  
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The ISS Progress 38 resupply ship was scheduled to dock to the aft end of the International Space Station’s Zvezda service module at 12:58 p.m. EDT Friday. However, docking was aborted when telemetry between the Progress and the space station was lost about 25 minutes before its planned docking.

As a result, the Progress vehicle continued on its trajectory and glided past the space station. At the time of the communication loss, the vehicle was approximately 3 km from the station. The unexp [...]




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