Last ATV launched to ISS
Arianespace today successfully launched the last European cargo ship to ISS.
After doing some flight tests in orbit and in conjunction with ISS, the docking will occur on August 12.
After this flight the Russian Progress freighter will be the only spacecraft with engines capable of changing the station’s orbit. It will also be the only spacecraft capable of refueling the engines on ISS’s Russian modules.
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Arianespace today successfully launched the last European cargo ship to ISS.
After doing some flight tests in orbit and in conjunction with ISS, the docking will occur on August 12.
After this flight the Russian Progress freighter will be the only spacecraft with engines capable of changing the station’s orbit. It will also be the only spacecraft capable of refueling the engines on ISS’s Russian modules.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
The Shuttles were thrusters were used, while docked at PMA-2, to boost the station’s orbit a bit.
Presuming that the manned dragon flights dock to PMA-2, it would seem possible for it to perform some reboost. I wonder if any engineers have validated the torques and forces involved.