 Progress M-15M mission completed.
On August 20, 2012 at 15:22 UTC the "Progress M-15M” unmanned supply spacecraft was deorbited. Non-burnt fragments of the spacecraft sank in the South part of the Pacific at 16:12 UTC.
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Russian Spacecraft docked with ISS six hours after liftoff.
On August 2, 2012 at 01:18 UTC the Russian "Progress M-16M” unmanned supply spacecraft automatically docked with the International Space Station just only six hours after blasting off from Earth.
It was for the first time, when Russia docked the space freighter with the ISS in the first six hours after the launch rather than in two days, which was a routine procedure.
Progress-M-16M delivered over 2639 kilograms of supplies, including food, water and scientific equipment, to a six-man crew onboard the orbital station.
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Russia launched “Progress M-16M” spacecraft to Space Station.
On August 01, 2012 at 19:35 UTC the "Progress M-16M” unmanned supply spacecraft was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station. The spacecraft was orbited by the "Soyuz-U” rocket-carrier.
For the first time Russia will attempt to dock the space freighter with the ISS in the first six hours after the launch rather than in two days, which is a routine procedure.
Progress-M-16M is to deliver more than 2500 kilograms of supplies, including food, water and scientific equipment, to a six-man crew onboard the orbital station.
The docking is scheduled for 05:24 a.m. Moscow time (01:24 UTC) on the fourth revolution of the cargo spacecraft around Earth.
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Russian Space Freighter Departs From Orbital Station.
On July 30, 2012 at 21:16 UTC (July 31 at 01:16 Moscow time) the Russian Progress M-15M unmanned supply spacecraft undocked form the International Space Station.
The spacecraft will conduct a series of scientific experiments under the Radar-Progress project during a three-week scientific mission before being de-orbited into the Pacific.
The project focuses on the study of space engines impact on the ionosphere.
The Progress M-15M arrived at the ISS in April. The freighter undocked from the ISS on July 23 to test an upgraded Russian automated rendezvous system.
The first attempt to re-dock with the ISS using the Kurs-NA system resulted in failure. The spacecraft, however, successfully docked with the orbital station on a second attempt on July 29 after Russian engineers had reprogrammed on-board controls.
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Russian Progress M-15M space freighter re-docked to Space Station.
On July 29, 2012 at 01:00 UTC the Russian Progress M-15M unmanned supply spacecraft re-docked with the International Space Station.
A second attempt to re-dock the Russian Progress M-15M resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) with the help of a new rendezvous system was performed successfully.
The spacecraft docked to the Russian "Pirs” module.
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Japanese Unmanned Spacecraft Arrives at International Space Station.
On July 27, 2012 the Japanese HTV 3 (Kounotori 3) unmanned supply spacecraft completed a successful rendezvous with the orbiting complex.
First the HTV 3 spacecraft flew to about 12 meters away from the ISS, where it was grabbed at 12:23 UTC by the space station's 18-metert long robotic arm, which was controlled from inside by American astronaut Joseph Acaba and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.
Using the Canadarm2 robotic arm, Acaba and Hoshide maneuvered Kounotori 3 to the Earth-facing docking port on the space station's Harmony node at 14:34 UTC.
The spaceship is loaded with 3,600 kg of cargo, including care packages with food, clothing and other items for the space station's crew.
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Progress spacecraft failed to re-dock to ISS.
On July 24, 2012 Russian Progress M-15M unmanned supply spacecraft failed to re-dock with the International Space Station (ISS) due to certain problems in the freighter's new Kurs-NA rendezvous system.
The unmanned Progress M-15M, which arrived at the ISS in April, undocked from the station on July 22 to conduct a series tests of the upgraded Kurs-NA rendezvous system.
The Kurs-NA system warned of a possible emergency situation and called off the re-docking when the Progress M-15M was approaching to the ISS.
The Kurs-NA rendezvous system went smoothly at the beginning, but the system issued a command to stop further operations at 4:22 a.m. Moscow time (00:22 UTC) when the freighter was at a distance of 161 kilometers to the ISS.
The Russian space agency promised the incident would not lead to a delay of the Japanese spacecraft HTV-3's docking with the ISS on July 27.
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First American woman in space passed away.
After a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer, Sally Ride, the first U.S. female astronaut passed away on July 23, 2012 in San Diego, California, at the age of 61.
Sally Ride, who joined U.S. space agency NASA in 1978, became in 1983 the first American woman in space as a crew member on Space Shuttle Challenger. She was also the youngest American space traveler at the time. One of her
hobby was stamp collecting.
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Russian Progress spacecraft undocked from the ISS.
On July 22. 2012 at 20:25 UTC (July 23 at 00:25 Moscow time) the Russian "Progress M-15M” undocked from the International Space Station.
It is planned to dock the spacecraft with the ISS again to test an upgraded Russian "Kurs” docking system.
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Japan launched unmanned spacecraft to the ISS.
On June 21, 2012 at 02:06 UTC Japan successfully launched the H-2B rocket-carrier from the Tanegashima Space Center, an island base at the southern tip of Japan.
The rocket orbited HTV-3 unmanned supply spacecraft. Japan is calling the spacecraft Kounotori, which means white stork.
The spacecraft is to deliver more than five tons of cargo to the International Space Station.
The HTV-3 is to be docked with the ISS in a week.
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