Russian spacecraft to complete the second docking with the International Space Station

Russian flight control center 29, said "Progress M-15M cargo spacecraft was Moscow time 5:00successful completion of the secondary of the Nike shox Cartoon International Space Station docking.

The agency said in a statement: "Progress spacecraft docking with the docking module of the International Space Station Terminal completed in accordance with the procedures of the course-NA docking system design. Near and docking operation automatically under the control of the flight control center experts and the International Space Station astronauts . "

"Progress M-15M cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station (ISS), 23, had tried its second docking-NA" to test new spacecraft docking system "heading. Automatically close to the stage of the Nike Air Hyper shox docking process in the remote, everything is normal, but when the spacecraft is close to 161 km away from the space station, "heading" docking system issued a directive prohibiting the next step, so that docking terminate. Since then, the spacecraft moved about 500 km away from the space station a safe location to wait once again butt.

"Heading-NA system is a Russian independent development of third-generation spacecraft docking system. After the test is successful, it will substitute a course-A "system, the opening of the Nike shox TL1 Soviet era in the" Progress "cargo spacecraft" Soyuz TMA manned spacecraft. A new system of light and energy-saving microprocessor instead of the analog signal processing devices.