The orbit of the International Space Station was raised on Friday to ensure successful docking of a Russian spacecraft at the beginning of the next year, a spokesman for Mission Control Center in Russia said.

The docking of American Cygnus cargo vehicle with the ISS may be put off because of ISS thermal control system pump failure, - NASA representative reported from MCC Russia.

Mission Control Centre: ISS reboost maneuver completed with the help of Progress M-21M thrusters.

On Saturday Russian cargo vehicle Progress M-21M nominally docked with the ISS. However at the final stage of the docking the specialists made a decision to use manual docking successfully performed by ISS cosmonaut Oleg Kotov.

An unmanned Russian resupply spacecraft carrying an improved navigation system docked early Saturday with the International Space Station, Russian Mission Control said.

Russian cargo vehicle Progress M-21M successfully carried out ISS rendezvous maneuver testing a new “Kurs-NA” docking system. After this maneuver the spaceship retreated to a safe distance from the ISS (less than 100 km) in order to dock with the station on Saturday (November 30).

Progress M-21M space vehicle carrying cargos for ISS crews successfully separated from Soyuz booster’ third stage, - Mission Control centre representative reported.

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