Hi all, The automatic docking of the Progress M1-4 vehicle to the ISS using the KURS system did not work. At 100 meters, this system was not able to acquire the signal from the Zarya module and Progress was oscillating quite a lot as seen in the images transmitted live from a camera on the vehicle. At 03:02 UT, Gidzenko took over the controls and tried a manual docking but was disturbed by sunlight getting directly in the Progress camera used to acquire the docking target. At 5 meters from ISS at 03:09 UT, Progress stopped than backed away to about 35 m and stayed there. Right now, they intend to manually dock the vehicle after sunset occuring at 03:55 UT. Dan -- Daniel Deak representant, projet spatial Starshine Drummondville, Quebec COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-5:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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