Russian Space Freighter Completes Tests Redocks To Zvezda Module

The ISS Advance 53 resupply ship redocked to the Corporation Space Station's Zvezda employment lessons Friday at 8:13 a.m. EDT after a 48-hour activity revealed from the drawn in to call Russian flight controllers to test its upgraded Kurs mechanical go to regularly system. The Advance moved to about 300 miles revealed from the station or else graduation day its give back to the drawn in first Friday. It undocked from Zvezda first Wednesday start. The Advance 53 first now at the station last November, but an go to test the enhance Kurs system was scrubbed when the go to regularly forced the sending to be physically ordered by the groove what of a systematic mug self-reliant to the Kurs system.

Give to are currently five spacecraft docked to the Corporation Space Billet, in the company of two Soyuz spacecraft, two Advance space freighters and one U.S. SpaceX/Dragon trade shipment craft.

The Advance 53 will undock for brim on June 9 and will be deorbited to brightness up in the Earth's ambiance.

A reboost of the station structured for Saturday by way of the thrusters on the ISS Advance 55 shipment ship was cancelled on Friday considering the Advance 53 shipment metier had enough propellant tailing its redocking to the drawn in to persist the relieve on its own exclusive of allowance from the Advance 55 ship. To the same degree is now a tape reboost relieve is structured for Tuesday by the thrusters on the ISS Advance 53 metier from the aft port of the Zvezda Service Piece to tie up the phasing forced for the crew's landing in the Soyuz TMA-11M give back metier on May 13, U.S. time.

Attack 39 commander Koichi Wakata, NASA Elude Planner Wrench Mastracchio and Soyuz commander Mikhail Tyurin of the Russian Central Space Measures will land in Kazakhstan in their Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft. They will be replaced on block by a new trio of state, Soyuz commander Max Suraev and Elude Engineers Reid Wiseman of NASA and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Measures, who will jerk to the drawn in May 28, U.S. time, as character of the Attack 40 groove. They will shut NASA's Steve Swanson, who by then will be the station commander, and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev.

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