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(unfortunately no video at this time...)
Did anyone explain what happened to the video during the last minutes before contact?
The ever useless TDRS communication network was out of range as it seems always during interesting events.
TDRS satellites with line-of-sight to the West and Central Pacific may have been handling NRO content?  This sort of thing--TDRSS n/a when one would wish for coverage--has happened before.

Two screen captures from the seconds after video returned.

Edit: Read down-thread.  My suggestion regarding the loss of video was wrong in this case.
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All 12 hooks (2 sets of 6) closed, Hard capture complete !
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Crew-4 docking at 23:37:49 UTC

Corrected minutes.
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Start of vestibule pressurization.
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The Crew-4 Astronauts Dock to the Space Station

Heidi Lavelle Posted on April 27, 2022

NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, and Jessica Watkins, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti arrived at the International Space Station Wednesday, April 27, as the SpaceX Dragon Freedom docked to the complex at 7:37 p.m. EDT while the spacecraft were flying about 261 miles above the Pacific Ocean.

Following Crew Dragon’s link up to the Harmony module, the astronauts aboard Dragon and the space station will begin conducting standard leak checks and pressurization between the spacecraft in preparation for hatch opening.

Lindgren, Hines, Watkins, and Cristoforetti will join the Expedition 67 crew of Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, and Kayla Barron, all of NASA, Matthias Maurer of ESA, and cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Sergey Korsakov, and Denis Matveev of Roscosmos. For a short time, the number of crew on the space station will increase to 11 people until NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 departs in early May.

NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website are providing ongoing live coverage through hatch opening. NASA also will cover the ceremony to welcome the crew aboard the orbital outpost about 2:40 a.m. Thursday, April 28.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2022/04/27/the-crew-4-astronauts-dock-to-the-space-station/

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The ever useless TDRS communication network was out of range as it seems always during interesting events.

There are always periods of LOS and this docking was way ahead of schedule. Can't ever remember a docking over 40 minutes early.

And someone correct me if I'm wrong but is there a Ku-band conflict with using the zenith port? I seem to remember no Ku coverage when using that port before.

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The #Crew4 astronauts arrived at the space station at 7:37pm ET. The @SpaceX Dragon Freedom docked to the orbiting complex while the spacecraft were flying about 261 miles above the Pacific Ocean.

https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status/1519466353769463808

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PARKED IT! Crew Dragon Freedom docks for the first time at the ISS with the Crew-4 astronauts.

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1519461436354871299

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Some stowage bags need to be removed...
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MCC-X "good vestibule leak check".
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"Freedom" internal camera is Back .
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Some activities in the two side of the hatches.
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Waitinf for Crew-4 ingress...
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Go for Dragon's hatch opening.
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Dragon crew enter ISS !
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