Complex sentence: Lifting off, Ross attempts to dock with "Phoenix" to retrieve its flight recorder, but "Doppelgänger"' s hardware malfunctions, indicating that current is constant on both Earths after all.
Split into simpler sentences: Lifting off, Ross attempts to dock with "Phoenix" to retrieve its flight recorder. However, "Doppelgänger"' s hardware malfunctions, indicating that current is constant on both Earths after all.