'Smooth, gentle' mating at 28,000 kph
I trust that is with respect to our earthbound frame of reference, not the speed of the podule with respect to ISS.
Europe's ATV cargo ship Edoardo Amaldi successfully docked with the International Space Station last night, marking the third ATV mission to restock the ISS. The totally automated space freighter hooked up with the Russian Zvezda module's docking cone smoothly at around 22:30 GMT last night. The ATV was monitored from the …
While Reg bloggers would indeed do well to cease insisting on «28000 kph», still the success of the vehicle in getting its velocity in the ISS' reference frame down to zero is no mean feat. Hoping for more of the same !...
Henri