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Tue, 06/30/2009 - 13:09
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Russian resupply spacecraft to undock from ISS Tuesday

MOSCOW, June 30 (Itar-Tass) - The second Russian resupply spacecraft
with digital control system is to undock from the International Space
Station (ISS) on Tuesday.
Valery Lyndin, spokesman of the Flight Contro Center (FCC) outside
Moscow has told Itar-Tass, "The Progress M-02M, laden with refuse
collected aboard the ISS, will undock from the station in an automatic
mode at 22:30 Moscow time and set out on an autonomous flight".
Lyndin said the spacecraft would travel at first to a safe distance
from the station and undergo testing in an autonomous mode for almost two
weeks.
On July 12, prior to splashing down in the Pacific, the spacecraft
will accomplish its main mission: by means of the spacecraft FCC
specialists will check in a realtime rendezvous mode the functioning of
the instrumentation of the space station's new berth where a new Russian
module MIM-2 is to dock in autumn.


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