Japanese redock two satellites after three-week separation
Controllers at Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA) managed to reconnect the two halves of the seventh Engineering Test Satellite (ETS-7) last week, after flight control anomalies had kept the chaser and target satellites apart for almost three weeks. The Hikoboshi chaser redocked with...
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