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ISS Computer Virus

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RE: ISS

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According to the Russian Mission Control Centre the International Space Station's orbit has been raised by 5.8 kilometres in preparation for the docking of the Progress M-65 cargo module, that is scheduled to be launched on the 10th September, 2008.
The attached Jules Verne Automated Transport Vehicle (ATV) activated two of its four engines for 16 minutes, 35.1 seconds, to raise the station's orbit.
The ISS is currently orbiting at an altitude of 355.9 kilometres over earth's surface.

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The ISS is scheduled to make an orbital boost on the 13th August 2008.

ISS
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2 25544  51.6408  87.0005 0009999  56.2913 303.9202 15.72922409 37402

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2 25544  51.6410  82.7661 0002952  15.7003 344.4250 15.70857388 37535

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Today's spacewalk will be easy, compared with the harrowing exercise Thursday, when cosmonauts cut through insulation to remove an explosive bolt with enough power to blow off one of their hands.
International Space Station Commander Sergei Volkov and flight engineer Oleg Kononenko will bring in one experiment and install another today.

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Russian cosmonauts have completed a spacewalk to remove an explosive bolt from a Soyuz capsule attached to the International Space Station (ISS).

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Two space station astronauts took a daring spacewalk Thursday to cut into the insulation of their descent capsule and remove an explosive bolt with firecracker force — enough to blow off their hands.

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Two International Space Station residents will conduct a pair of spacewalks outside the Russian segment of the complex on July 10 and 15.
Both planned spacewalks will be covered by NASA Television.

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For the second time since April, ESA's Jules Verne ATV was used to raise the orbit of the International Space Station yesterday. A record boost from the 20 minute burn of the Automated Transfer Vehicle's main engines successfully lifted the altitude of the 300-tonne Station by around 7 km to an altitude of around 345 km above the Earth's surface.

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The ATV Jules Verne European space freighter raised the orbital altitude of the International Space Station (ISS) by seven kilometres on Thursday.