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April 25, 2013

Antenna fails to deploy on unmanned spaceship bound for ISS
Moscow (AFP) April 24, 2013
A unmanned Progress spaceship racing to the ISS with 2.5 tonnes of cargo on board failed Wednesday to deploy a key antenna that helps it dock with the orbiting lab in the latest hitch in Russia's space programme. "There was a problem with one of the antennae in the Kurs (Navigation) system," Vitaly Lopota of the Energia space corporation the designs Russian spacecraft told the Interfax news agency. The US space agency NASA said in a tweet: "Once in orbit, an antenna used as a navigational aid on ... read more

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