Progress M-61 launch - August 2

• #40 by psloss on 05 Aug, 2007 18:10
• Interesting update from PAO Rob Navias about the Russian computers...hadn't heard about the corrosion issues reported.
• #41 by SpaceNutz SA on 05 Aug, 2007 18:11

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• #42 by Ford Mustang on 05 Aug, 2007 18:13
• 'Right on track, right on the money'.  Progress 26 conducting fly-around.

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• #43 by Ford Mustang on 05 Aug, 2007 18:16
• Good view of Progress 25, along with a diagram of all the docked Progress' and Soyuz.

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• #44 by SpaceNutz SA on 05 Aug, 2007 18:18
• Progress 26 approaching ISS

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• #45 by Ford Mustang on 05 Aug, 2007 18:20
• About 205 meters away, good shot from Pirs docking compartment.
  
  Docking expected 18 and a half minutes from now.

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• #46 by SpaceNutz SA on 05 Aug, 2007 18:31
• Great shots of Progress approach over Med sea.  
  Thruster firing.  
  Into orbital sunset.

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• #47 by Ford Mustang on 05 Aug, 2007 18:32
• Out of range for ISS TDRS, awaiting AOS through Russian satellite.
  
  Final approach re-initiated.  Closing in at seven tenths of a foot per second.

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• #48 by Ford Mustang on 05 Aug, 2007 18:36
• AOS of Progress 26 cameras over Russian Satellites.
  
  View of Pirs docking port via Progress 26.
  
  EDIT:  50 meters until docking.

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• #49 by psloss on 05 Aug, 2007 18:36
• Range inside of 50 meters.
• #50 by psloss on 05 Aug, 2007 18:37
• Kurs antenna now fully retracted. Range 40 meters or so.
• #51 by psloss on 05 Aug, 2007 18:38
• Sunset.  Range 25 meters, range rate 0.1 meters per second.
  
• #52 by Ford Mustang on 05 Aug, 2007 18:39
• 25 meters.  Closing rate: one tenth of a meter per second.
  
  ORBIT NIGHT.
  
  
  Edit: psloss got me.  

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• #53 by psloss on 05 Aug, 2007 18:39
• Range 15 meters.
• #54 by psloss on 05 Aug, 2007 18:40
• Contact confirmed.  And capture.
• #55 by psloss on 05 Aug, 2007 18:41
• Picture went "unstable" just before contact and capture...
  
• #56 by SpaceNutz SA on 05 Aug, 2007 18:41
• DOCKING CONFIRMED!

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• #57 by psloss on 05 Aug, 2007 18:41
• Probe retraction underway.
• #58 by Ford Mustang on 05 Aug, 2007 18:41
• Docking and capture confirmed.
  
  Bad signal, bad picture.  
  
  Picture 2: Current configuration of the ISS, with the Russian vehicles docked.

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• #59 by psloss on 05 Aug, 2007 18:43
• Quick live shot of the STS-118 shuttle on the pad...