Cosmonauts remotely information Russian cargo ship to area station docking after steering glitch

A Russian Progress cargo ship carrying greater than 5,570 kilos of kit and provides docked on the Worldwide Area Station early Sunday after a two-day rendezvous. Cosmonauts working at a management station contained in the lab complicated remotely guided the spacecraft into port after its automated rendezvous system misplaced alignment throughout remaining method.

The Progress MS-25/86P spacecraft was launched Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan atop a Soyuz 2.1a rocket. It’s carrying 3,423 kilos of kit and crew provides, 88 kilos of nitrogen, 926 kilos of water and 1,135 kilos of propellant used to assist keep the station’s orbit.

The availability ship caught up with the area station early Sunday and was within the means of lining up for docking on the lab’s space-facing Poisk module when its automated KURS rendezvous system apparently misplaced monitor of the spacecraft’s exact location and orientation.

Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, monitoring the method from the station’s Zvezda module, took over by distant management on the course of Russian flight controllers and deftly guided the automobile in for docking at 6:18 a.m. EST. Hatches had been anticipated to be opened later within the day after in depth leak checks to confirm an hermetic structural seal.