JULES VERNE & THE ISS: On Saturday night, March 29th, the unmanned Jules Verne cargo carrier proved to ESA ground controllers that it could navigate on its own around the International Space Station. During the maneuvers, amateur astronomer Christoph Rollwagen photographed the pair flying over his rooftop in Potsdam-Bornstedt, Germany:
In Rollwagen's movie of the flyby, the spacecraft seem to vanish in mid-flight; that happens when they enter the dark shadow of Earth. "The cargo carrier flew in tandem almost 8 seconds in front of the station--a real distance of about 60 km," he says.
The distance will shrink further tonight, March 31st, when Jules Verne approaches the ISS again, stopping only 11 meters from the docking port and then backing away.
This is practice for an actual, automated docking on April 3rd.
European sky watchers can see these events with their own eyes as the two spacecraft fly over their continent in the evenings ahead.
http://www.spaceweather.com/
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