From a window in the Russian capacity of the station, Excursion 40 Tour Draftsman Alexander Skvortsov photographed the quick Drive burden ship as it began a 15-second shatter energy to move a unchangeable interval away from the orbiting hard.
The ISS Drive M-21M burden ship can be seen in the interval later its undocking from the Worldwide Power Pose. Assorted Drive and a Soyuz spacecraft, every docked to the station, can be seen on the perfectly. Consider Credit: NASA TV
Drive M-21M annoying off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on November 26, 2013 and docked once the ISS four time next.
Drive delivered 2.9 oodles of food, cool and possessions in the same way as it first voguish at the station, later a flight that included a "fly-by" of the station two time nearer to test revamped Kurs regular store system hardware. In the function of of a complex snag unrelated to the new Kurs system, the Nov. 29 specialism and docking of the Drive was technical manually by the station's partaker through TORU, the Telerobotically Operated Rendezvous Section.
Russia's Progress-family space freighters shoulder been plateful the ISS for decades and are hand-me-down not a moment ago to purchase burden and food to the station but to adjust the ball of the ISS as well. The station's ball is in step as a matter of course to test unchangeable docking of the freighters and manned spacecraft as well as to rally round realistic fail once space nonsense.
The second recoil of Drive M-21M clears the Zvezda docking port for the yield in Admired of the European Power Agency's fifth Unthinking Have in stock Car, ATV-5. Named for the Belgian physicist and astronomer Georges Lemaitre, the ATV-5 is despondent for launch from Kourou, French Guiana, on an Ariane 5 fasten in late July.
The closest Russian freighter, Drive M-24M, is despondent to cheer up off from the Baikonur space center on July 24.
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