The unmanned Soyuz MS-14, carrying provides and Fedor, a humanoid robotic, has efficiently docked on the Worldwide House Station (ISS) after the primary try went awry on account of a technical glitch.
The docking went off with out a hitch early Tuesday morning Moscow time (03:08 UTC) as house lovers all over the world watched with bated breath Fedor’s second shot at docking on the ISS.
The mission was initially scheduled for Saturday however was aborted after a rendezvous system, often known as Kurs, malfunctioned. Sometimes, the crew can take management and dock manually, however Fedor was unable to steer the spaceship on his personal.
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The ISS crew had two days to repair the flaw. They did it by relocating the Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft that was already on the station to a different dock, thus releasing a totally functioning dock for Fedor’s second attempt on Monday night time.
The #SoyuzMS13 spacecraft was efficiently redocked from the Zvezda module to the Poisk module of the Russian phase of the ISS.
The freed up Zvezda module berth shall be used to dock the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft, which is scheduled for August, 27 at 03:12 UTC pic.twitter.com/8iGFmgCwBz
— РОСКОСМОС (@roscosmos) August 26, 2019
Fedor is ready to participate in “about 5 – 6 scientific duties” that for now are shrouded in secrecy. He’s supposed to remain on the ISS till September 6.
Fedor, formally often known as Ultimate Experimental Demonstration Object Analysis, is about 190 centimeters (6.2 ft) tall and weighs some 160 kilograms (350 kilos).
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