A couple of successful evaluation simulations today for Sasha and myself at the European Astronaut Centre, dealing with all kinds of malfunctions during rendez-vous and docking, as well as undocking and departure of ATV.
Some more training is coming up early next year and then we’ll have our final ATV rendez-vous exam in Star City, just before Sasha will leave for Baikonour as backup crewmember of Expedition 39.
In the picture, courtesy of Exp 36, you can see the final approach of ATV4 “Albert Einstein” last summer. You can probably make out the illuminated target: that’s what we use to visually monitor distance, corridor and relative attitude to Station, to make sure the vehicle is properly aligned when it makes contact.
Some more info on the ATV blog!
https://blogs.esa.int/atv/2013/11/29/astro-samantha-cosmo-sasha-complete-atv-5-docking-training/
(Trad IT) Traduzione in italiano a cura di +AstronautiNEWS qui:
https://www.astronautinews.it/tag/logbook/
(Trad ES) Tradducción en español aquí:
https://www.intervidia.com/category/bitacora/
(Trad FR) Traduction en français par +Anne Cpamoa ici:
https://anne.cpamoa.free.fr/blog/index.php/category/logbook-samantha
29/11/2013