328 days? I reckon there'll be a few guys looking for 'adventure' pressies for the missus.
Re: ISS Thread
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2020 9:15 am
by Boac
Re the 'air leak' on the ISS, this confuses me:
"The station’s atmosphere is maintained at a pressure comfortable for the crew members, and a tiny bit of that air leaks over time, requiring routine re-pressurization from nitrogen tanks delivered on cargo resupply missions."
Reports that the robotic arm on the ISS has received minor damage from space junk. It's getting frisky up there with all that stuff flying around!
Re: ISS Thread
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 8:43 pm
by G-CPTN
I wonder how long it will be before they have to abandon the ISS because of the space junk?
Re: ISS Thread
Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 8:49 pm
by Boac
Don't worry - the Chinese one will be ready soon...................
Re: ISS Thread
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 9:25 am
by Boac
The latest Russian module for the ISS safely docked yesterday after many 'issues', but then apparently began firing its thrusters in an uncontrolled way which threatened the whole station. After an exciting hour in which a battle of the thrusters took place using other ISS 'plug-ins', the whole tense event dribbled to a close when the Russian module finally ran out of thruster fuel.
Sweaty palms!
The 'event' has caused the planned Friday Boeing unmanned 'Starliner' launch to be delayed as a precaution.
The latest Russian module for the ISS safely docked yesterday after many 'issues', but then apparently began firing its thrusters in an uncontrolled way which threatened the whole station. After an exciting hour in which a battle of the thrusters took place using other ISS 'plug-ins', the whole tense event dribbled to a close when the Russian module finally ran out of thruster fuel.
Sweaty palms!
The 'event' has caused the planned Friday Boeing unmanned 'Starliner' launch to be delayed as a precaution.
An incident at the International Space Station was more dramatic and dangerous than previously explained, and a “spacecraft emergency” was declared, according to a new report.
Last week, a Russian module Nauka arrived at the International Space Station after years of delay. But soon after it had docked, it caused major problems for the floating labs: its thrusters continued to fire, pushing the whole station out of its usual course and causing it to spin.
Nasa said initially that the incident had taken it “45 degrees out of attitude”, and that the crew was never in any danger.
But Zebulon Scoville, the Nasa flight director who was leading mission control during the incident, said that it had moved far more severely off course.
It had in fact “spun one-and-a-half revolutions — about 540 degrees — before coming to a stop upside down”, he told the New York Times. It then did a forward flip to get itself back into its original orientation, he said.
Mr Scoville also said that he had been forced to declare his first ever “spacecraft emergency” during the incident.
He told the paper that the incident had “been a little incorrectly reported” in the hours after it happened, during which Nasa made a number of public comments that suggested both the spinning and the danger it caused was relatively limited.
Nasa did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Independent. But the space agency confirmed to Space that the details of the report were true.