Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan), July 23 – RIA Novosti. Left solar battery manned spacecraft “Soyuz TMA-17M” with a new ISS crew was not revealed during the launch spacecraft into orbit, the second working nominally and fully ensure the ship power, told RIA Novosti the Russian Space Agency.
NASA previously reported on its website that one of the two solar panels on the ship “Union”, which kicked off on Thursday night to the International Space Station with three new crew members not opened after the spacecraft in orbit, but it did not affect the ship’s docking station. A few minutes later a message about the incident to the solar battery has been removed from the site Space Agency.
“When you run the July 23″ Soyuz “from the Baikonur Cosmodrome not revealed left the solar battery. The second battery is functioning nominally, and fully meet the needs of the ship’s electricity. The flight continued. The cosmonauts feel good. Docking, as before, is planned for 5.47 MSK “, – said in Roskosmos.
A similar situation arose in September 2014, when the” Soyuz TMA-14M “is docked to the ISS with a solar battery unopened. The docking is successful in automatic mode.
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