... spacenews.com ... "Uncrewed Soyuz aborts ISS docking" ...A rare uncrewed flight of a Soyuz spacecraft took another twist Aug. 24 when the spacecraft failed to make an automated docking with the International Space Station.
The Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft was scheduled to dock with the station’s Poisk module at about 1:30 a.m. Eastern.
While the spacecraft’s initial approach to the station took place normally, the spacecraft failed to make a final approach for docking, remaining about 90 meters from the station.
NASA said in a later statement (*) that the station’s two Russian cosmonauts, overseeing the docking, issued a command to abort the docking at 1:36 a.m. Eastern, directing the Soyuz to move away from the station.
The ISS, NASA added, was never in danger during the aborted docking attempt.
(*) ... "Russian Spacecraft Docking Attempt No Earlier Than Monday" ...
Un nuovo tentativo di aggancio verrà dunque tentato Martedì 27 dopo un' operazione di riposizionamento della Soyuz MS-13 che avrà luogo Lunedì 26 ...
(*) ... http://en.roscosmos.ru/20890/ ...Instead, Skvortsov will board the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft currently docked to the station’s Zvezda module Aug. 26 and manually dock it to the Poisk module.
That will free up the Zvezda module’s port for a new docking attempt by Soyuz MS-14.
“The situation is complicated, however [it] is under control,” Roscosmos stated (*).
(*) ... http://en.roscosmos.ru/20891/ ...
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