next test
progress now 700 meters away from the
international space station
the fly around expected to begin about
three and a half minutes from now at a
range of 400 meters
we're about to lose our link through the
ku band communication system through the
international space station but at that
time we'll be segwaying into an
acquisition of signal over russian
ground stations throughout the duration
of the approach for docking
russian flight controllers reporting uh
that the angle of the uh progress
is excellent
150 meters now separating the progress
from its target at the aft port of the
zvezda service module closing at .7
meters per second
0.1.5 degrees to the left
and maybe one degree up
county
range is 50
and the closing rate is 18 copy
the international space station in
progress now just 50 meters apart from
one another flying 262 statute miles
over southern russia
so it's one degree up and half a degree
to the left
velocity
and the range is about seven meters
copied
about five and a half minutes until
docking everything proceeding
by the book for the progress 53 cargo
ship loaded with almost 3 tons of
supplies
food fuel holiday gifts for the
expedition 38 crew
i'm station keeping and i'm aligning the
crosshairs copy
you can see uh the result of kotov uh
and his um operation of a joystick on a
command panel in the zvezda service
module as he aligns the crosshairs on
the uh progress docking
target to the target uh
just underneath the docking port itself
on the zvezda service module
he took over control manual control of
the flying of the progress at a distance
of about 65 or so meters after progress
suddenly went into a station keeping
mode it was not expected
this is
the whole reason for having a backup
control system
to manually fly in the progress in the
event that the corps automated
rendezvous system would uh suddenly
experience some issue that would prevent
a fully automated docking all the way in
yes we have received the confirmation
that the antenna is
away copy
the cores n a antenna this new antenna
that replaces a cluster of four antennas
and the old core system has retracted as
had been expected at a distance of 40
meters
alec kotov the expedition 38 commander
surrounded in the russian segment by his
russian colleagues mikhail turin and
sergey ryazanskiy
manually flying the progress in for an
expected docking just uh moments from
now crosstalk
everything is nominal just go steadily
we are good
yes and we are good we know that
proceeding
misha you please
report the range six meters
copy seven meters
just seven meters separating
the progress from its docking port
five meters
the target is in the middle and the
crosses are basically aligned standing
by for contact and capture
it's about one point one
yes we're doing well good
the targets are in the middle
in the center
closing
congratulations guys uh you did well
a manual docking
performed by alec kotov taking over
control of the toru the tele-robotically
operated system at a distance of about
60
meters or so
after uh the coors system uh suddenly
put the progress 53 craft into a station
keeping mode
kotov went to the manual control of the
flying of the progress the rest of the
way in through a joystick on a command
panel in the zvezda service module
docking occurring at 4 30 pm central
time as the progress and the
international space station flew 262
miles over kazakhstan