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Russian unmanned space freighter makes record time to ISS
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 02 - 08 - 2012


An unmanned Russian spacecraft on
Thursday docked with the International Space Station after making the
trip from Earth in record time, dpa cited officials as saying.
A new approach manoeuvre allowed the Progress M16-M vessel to
reach the space station, 350 kilometres above the Earth, after fewer
orbits, taking a total six hours, compared to the usual two days.
The cargo ship took off on board a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur
Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:35 am Thursday (1935 Wednesday GMT),
carrying 2.6 tons of supplies, fuel, scientific equipment and gifts
for the space station's crew.
It docked successfully at 0118 GMT Thursday after four orbits
round the Earth and a few minutes ahead of schedule, several reports
in Russian media quoted mission control as saying.
After further testing, the new approach could also be used for
manned Soyuz capsules, cutting time and expense.
"If you can get the crew to orbit in six hours and onboard the
International Space Station, that could be a tremendous benefit over
the two-plus days it takes today," Dan Harman, NASA's space station
manager of operations and integration, told reporters last week.
The station is currently manned by three Russian cosmonauts, two
US astronauts and a Japanese astronaut.
It is also hosting two other cargo vessels, Japan's H-II Transfer
Vehicle-3 and Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle-3, or Edoardo
Amaldi.


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