Russia’s next space station trip will take days, not hours
It’s not a great time to be a Russian cosmonaut. Thanks to the International Space Station making a maneuver to avoid space junk, the next Soyuz spacecraft’s flight (due September 2nd) will take two days to reach the station instead of the relatively brisk six hours of recent trips. That’s more than a little unpleasant if you’re stuck in a cramped capsule, and negates a lot of the planning work that has saved so much time from 2013 onward. There’s no indication as to when (or if) launches will speed up, so crews may have little choice but to tough it out in the near future.
[Image credit: NASA, Flickr]
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Transportation, Science
Via:
AP (Phys.org)
Source:
Federal Space Agency (translated)
Tags: federalspaceagency, internationalspacestation, roscosmos, science, soyuz, space, spacejunk, transportation
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