Fwd: Docked spacecraft’s abnormal engine start causes ISS to move

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From: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Date: June 10, 2015 at 11:05:39 PM CDT
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Subject: FW: Docked spacecraft's abnormal engine start causes ISS to move

ROSCOSMOS: ANNOUNCEMENT

09/06/2015 22:28

June 9, 2015, in 18 hours 32 minutes MSK, during routine testing of radio rendezvous and docking to the International Space Station (ISS) and Soyuz start the engine abnormally Union, which led to a slight change in the position of the ISS. Taken the necessary measures to stabilize the ISS. Threats to the crew of the ISS, the station and the staff returned the Soyuz TMA-15M on the Earth there. Experts ROSCOSMOS determine causes of the incident, about the results to be announced.

 

Press Service of the Russian Federal Space Agency

 

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Docked spacecraft's abnormal engine start causes ISS to move - Roscosmos

June 09, 23:04 UTC+3
According to Russian space agency, there's no threat to the ISS crew

 

MOSCOW, June 9. /TASS/. The engines of a Soyuz spacecraft, docked to the International Space Station (ISS), which is to return on June 11 three astronauts to Earth, started abnormally and the location of the station changed, Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Tuesday.

"Today, on June 9, 2015, at 18:32 Moscow Time, during scheduled testing of the radio system of rapprochement and docking of the International Space Station and the Soyuz spacecraft, Soyuz's engines started abnormally, which led to a slight change of the ISS location," Roscosmos said.

"All required measures to stabilize the ISS have been taken," it said.

Roscosmos said "there is no threat to the ISS crew, the station itself and a normal return of the Soyuz TMA-15M to Earth."

"Roscosmos specialists are establishing the causes of what happened, and the results will be reported later," it said.

A descent capsule of the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft with three astronauts is expected to land in Kazakh steppe on June 11. The astronauts had to stay in orbit a few weeks longer due to April's accident involving a Progress spacecraft.

 

© 2015 TASS

 

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