TORU (Tele-robotically Operated Rendezvous Unit, Russian : Телеоператорный Режим Управления , lit. 'Teleoperator Control Mode') is a manual docking system for uncrewed Russian Progress and Soyuz spacecraft that serves as a backup to the automatic Kurs system. It was used on the former Mir space station and is currently in use on the International Space Station . The TORU system became known to the public in 1997 when it was used during the manual approach of Progress M-34 to Mir that ended with a dangerous collision that punctured the Spektr module causing a slow leak that left it permanently uninhabitable. It was an approach of a previously used Progress spacecraft with the purpose of research work on further improvement of TORU.
5-532: TORU or Toru may refer to: TORU , spacecraft system Tōru (given name) , Japanese male given name Toru, Pakistan , village in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Tõru , village in Kaarma Parish, Saare County, Estonia Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
10-408: A similar layout to the controls of a Soyuz spacecraft with two joysticks which can be used to manually fly the ship. The left joystick is used to control the movement of the ship (translation) and the right joystick is used to control its orientation (rotation). The system also includes a camera mounted on the docking spacecraft and provides visual feedback when the spacecraft is remotely controlled from
15-423: The station to which it is docking. TORU also transfers sounds from the spacecraft that may provide indirect information about the docking process. While ships are sufficiently close when docking to make signal travel delay insignificant, cosmonauts claim that TORU has a certain delay when operating the ship from the space station remotely. Some radio amateurs think they have observed TORU docking signals. TORU
20-479: The title Toru . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Toru&oldid=1231829229 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages TORU TORU has
25-468: Was first tested in 1993 ( Progress M-15 ) and actually used next year to dock Progress M-24 (after two unsuccessful attempts to dock automatically). Despite the 1997 M-34 collision, it was used again to dock the next Progress spacecraft, Progress M-35 , after Mir ’s onboard computer failed. TORU was also used in many later missions ( Progress M-53 , Progress M-67 , Progress M1-4 and possibly others). This article about one or more spacecraft of
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