** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

The ESA's "Edoardo Amaldi" Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 cargo craft arrives at the station after it's five day flight:

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This time Ireland and the UK:

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Horizon

Flying at an altitude of about 240 miles over the eastern North Atlantic, the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station photographed this nighttime scene. This view looks northeastward. Center point coordinates are 46.8 degrees north latitude and 14.3 degrees west longitude. The night lights of the cities of Ireland, in the foreground, and the United Kingdom, in the back and to the right, are contrasted by the bright sunrise in the background. The greens and purples of the Aurora Borealis are seen along the rest of the horizon.

This image was taken on March 28, 2012.
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To help, my view from Google Earth:

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Last night saw the first launch of the Delta IV in the Delta IV Medium+ (5,2) configuration:

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It’s 217’ tall with a hydrogen fuelled first stage, two solid fuel boosters on the sides, a cryogenic upper stage and nose shroud five meters wide.

The payload was from the the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), a secret spy satellite, NROL-25:

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The European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 (ATV-3) docking with the SM Aft port on the Zvezda service module of the space station on the 28th of March.

Approach:

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Docked:

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