Progress 33 re-rendezvous

The rendezvous of the Russian Progress 33 spacecraft with the International Space Station. The Progress 33 spaceraft came to 10 meters away from the ISS to test the new docking mechanism of the zenith port of the Zvezda Service Module. This mechanism will be used in November to dock the new Russian Mini-Research Module-2 to the ISS. The MRM-2 will serve as an airlock to the Russian segment of the station. The Progress 33 has undocked from the station on June 30, and will burn up in the Earth's atmosphere on July 13 as it has finished it's mission.

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Science & Technology

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• progress
• 33
• iss
• rendezvous
• russian
• zvezda
• zenith