A Russian attempt to redock the ISS Progress 47 resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station has failed, thanks to a a problem with the new Kurs-NA rendezvous system.
“A failure of an unknown nature occurred and caused the Progress’s on-board computers to self abort and put the spacecraft into a passive abort trajectory,” said NASA mission commentator Dan Huot. The exact cause of the failure isn’t known – but it’s potentially a blow for NASA’s current strategy of using Russian ships to resupply the ISS.