ATV-3 Vehicle Fails to Adjust Space Station Orbit

The European Space Agency’s ATV-3 space freighter failed on Wednesday to readjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS), a space industry source said. Another attempt could be made on Friday. Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said earlier in the day the engines of the Edoardo Amaldi spacecraft, docked at Russia’s Zvezda module on the ISS, would be fired to raise the ISS orbit by 7.7 kilometers, to 414.42 km. More

(Source: RIA Novosti - Aug 16)