Watch NASA's video showing the final stages of Russia's Progress 80 cargo spacecraft docking with the International Space Station on Thursday.
Russia’s Progress 80 cargo spacecraft safely docked with the International Space Station at 2:03 a.m. ET on Thursday, February 17.
The uncrewed Russian Progress 80 spacecraft automatically docked to the station’s Poisk docking compartment at 2:03am ET, delivering nearly three tons of food, fuel, and supplies to the orbiting lab. https://t.co/xGcjkSH4Bx pic.twitter.com/K6mJSRNb3A Delivering around three tons of food, fuel, and supplies for the seven-person Expedition 66 crew aboard the ISS, the video begins with the uncrewed spacecraft 72 meters from the docking point.
With both Progress and the ISS orbiting at high speed, the docking process is a delicate one. As you can see in the video, around 10 minutes is needed to get Progress from its position 70 meters from the station to the point when it can finally attach to the station’s Poisk docking compartment, which forms part of the Russian segment of the ISS.
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