AFP July 24, 2012 11:23PM
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THE Russian cargo ship Progress has failed to successfully dock with the International Space Station (ISS).
The failure came during tests designed to facilitate future link-ups, the US and Russian space agencies said Tuesday.
"The re-docking of the Russian ISS Progress 47 resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station has been
postponed due to an apparent failure in the new Kurs-NA rendezvous system," NASA said in a statement on its website.
A spokesman for the Russian Mission Control Centre confirmed that the cargo ship, known as Progress M-15M, had
failed to dock, without providing further details.
The docking was to have taken place at 0158 GMT, the Russian Mission Control Centre said.
The vehicle had undocked from the station on Sunday to perform tests to faciliate future dockings of cargo ships to the
space station.
The Russian Space Agency said later that the cargo ship was currently located 484 kilometres from the ISS and the next
docking attempt would take place after the scheduled arrival of the Japanese HTV-3 cargo ship on Friday.
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THE Russian cargo ship Progress has failed to successfully dock with the International Space Station (ISS).
The failure came during tests designed to facilitate future link-ups, the US and Russian space agencies said Tuesday.
"The re-docking of the Russian ISS Progress 47 resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station has been
postponed due to an apparent failure in the new Kurs-NA rendezvous system," NASA said in a statement on its website.
A spokesman for the Russian Mission Control Centre confirmed that the cargo ship, known as Progress M-15M, had
failed to dock, without providing further details.
The docking was to have taken place at 0158 GMT, the Russian Mission Control Centre said.
The vehicle had undocked from the station on Sunday to perform tests to faciliate future dockings of cargo ships to the
space station.
The Russian Space Agency said later that the cargo ship was currently located 484 kilometres from the ISS and the next
docking attempt would take place after the scheduled arrival of the Japanese HTV-3 cargo ship on Friday.
