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    Docking and berthing of spacecraft is the joining of two space vehicles. This connection can be temporary, or partially permanent such as for space station...
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    The NASA Docking System is NASA's implementation of the International Docking System Standard (IDSS), an international spacecraft docking standard promulgated...
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  • Look up docking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Docking may refer to: Docking and berthing of spacecraft, the process of joining one spacecraft or space...
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    module and rocket that will transport humans to and from the space station will dock at one end of the station. India is creating a unique docking port...
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    Docking System version of IDSS, implementing the active role. The ESA's International Berthing and Docking Mechanism is their IDSS compatible docking...
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    International Berthing and Docking Mechanism (IBDM) is the European androgynous low impact docking mechanism that is capable of docking and berthing large and small...
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  • System for docking and internal transfer) is a docking standard used by Soviet and Russian spacecraft, sometimes called RDS for Russian Docking System. It...
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  • receive cargo Pier, a type of maritime structure Space dock, a structure used for the docking and berthing of spacecraft Dock (computing), or taskbar, a...
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    The docking mechanism of the Apollo was a "probe and drogue" system designed to allow the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) to dock with the Apollo...
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    Visiting spacecraft dock at the station via its eight docking and berthing ports. The ISS maintains an orbit with an average altitude of 400 kilometres...
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    has a mass of 200 kg. Spaceflight portal Docking and berthing of spacecraft International Docking System Standard John Cook; Valery Aksamentov; Thomas...
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    Rendezvous may or may not be followed by docking or berthing, procedures which bring the spacecraft into physical contact and create a link between them. The same...
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    The Gemini spacecraft was equipped with a non-androgynous mechanism for docking with the Agena target vehicle or Augmented Target Docking Adapter. It was...
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    Gaganyaan (category Crewed spacecraft)
    Programme. The spacecraft is being designed to carry three people, and a planned upgraded version will be equipped with rendezvous and docking capabilities...
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    (APAS) and Androgynous Peripheral Docking System (APDS) are used interchangeably to describe a Russian family of spacecraft docking mechanisms, and are also...
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  • Docking System could mean: International Docking System Standard, international standard for spacecraft docking adapters. International Berthing and Docking...
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    Pressurized Mating Adapter (category Components of the International Space Station)
    (ISS) to convert the Common Berthing Mechanism (CBM) interface used to connect ISS modules to an APAS-95 spacecraft docking port. Three PMAs are attached...
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    "Teleoperator Retrieval System Press Kit - Space Shuttle - Docking And Berthing Of Spacecraft". Scribd. "NASA - Johnson Space Center History". "Skylab's...
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    International Docking Adapter (IDA) is a spacecraft docking system adapter developed to convert APAS-95 to support docking with spacecraft that implement...
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    Soyuz Kontakt (Soyuz Contact) was the docking hardware of the Soviet crewed lunar spacecraft program. The Soviet lunar human program was canceled in 1974...
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    STS-96 (category Spacecraft launched in 1999)
    spacecraft, this counted as a berthing rather than a docking despite the final configuration being identical to STS-96. See Docking and berthing of spacecraft...
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    installation of the docking module atop the Orbiter Docking System on STS-74. This blurred common distinctions between berthing and docking, being positioned...
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  • SPADEX (category Proposed spacecraft)
    Autonomous rendezvous and docking Controlling one spacecraft with Attitude Control System of other spacecraft while in docked configuration. Formation...
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    controls the pitch of the spacecraft to re-dock it at a different plane. The Chinarm on the Tianhe module can be used as a backup for docking relocation. Real-time...
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    June 2010, the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft performed the first docking with the module. Rassvet was berthed to the nadir port of Zarya with help from the Canadarm2...
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    Capture & Berthing 13 August 2024 – Progress MS-26/87P Undocking 17 August 2024 – Progress MS-28/89P Docking 4 September 2024 – Wilmore and Williams'...
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    Canadarm2 robotic arm grapples the spacecraft and berths it to a Common Berthing Mechanism, typically the nadir port of the Unity module. Cygnus does not...
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    space vehicle then docks or berths with the station. Docking refers to joining of two separate free-flying space vehicles, while berthing refers to mating...
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    Mir (category Crewed spacecraft)
    based on the TKS spacecraft which delivered the module to the aft end of the core module instead of the docking node. Once hard docking had been achieved...
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    docking port for Soyuz and Progress spacecraft and as an airlock for spacewalks. Poisk will also provide extra space for scientific experiments, and provide...
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