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Old October 28th 06, 08:28 AM posted to sci.space.station
frédéric haessig
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Default Progress problems.


"Jochem Huhmann" a écrit dans le message de news:
...
(Derek Lyons) writes:

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches...sion_page.html

As usual, problems with the all-singing, all-dancing Russian hardware
go unremarked.


Second docking attempt was successful. Seems at the first attempt one
Kurs antenna didn't fold away as it should (at least they couldn't
confirm it did).



Third one actually. The second one allowed for a little more probe
retraction but that was all. They had to try a third time to succeed. Good
thing there is so much margins in the energy system because it took several
orbits to finish