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Might be a night pass capture, based on the conversations.
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Yes, they expect lighting conditions to be OK for a night capture.

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Go to depart 250 meters.
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Go to enter the KOS.
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Recalculating capture time; may be around 6:30 Eastern (10:30 GMT) edit: 6:30 Central
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Expected arrival time 27m, so I must have heard that last message wrong (about capture time).

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Within 200m

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Capture time expected 6:30 Central

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Out of the night pass.
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Arriving at station keeping point in 17 minutes.

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You can see the solar panels rotating in this series of images!

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Dragon coming into view on the ISS HD Earth View stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload/theater

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63 m away, arrival in 8 minutes

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