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Old July 4th 10, 08:11 AM posted to sci.space.station
John Doe
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Default Progress fails to dock with ISS

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/index.html

Its story about Progress is more realistic and less sensationalistc than
the MSNBC one.

Basically, Progrss was 2km away, detected a problem and automatically
backed away (aborted). They will attempt again today (Sunday).

Seems to me that the safety system worked and safely aborted the docking
when the software realised it wasn't working perfectly.

Mr Zak didn't mention whether they will attempt a Kurs docking or a
remote control manual docking (controlled from station, not from ground
as MsNBC alluded).