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Russian module suddenly fires thrusters after docking with space station:
Flight controllers at NASA and Roscosmos averted a disaster on Thursday after a large Russian module docked with the International Space Station and began to "inadvertently" fire its thrusters.
The Russian "Nauka" module linked to the space station at 8:30 am CT (13:30 UTC), local time in Houston, where NASA's Mission Control is based. After that, Russian cosmonauts aboard the station began preparing to open the hatches leading to Nauka, but at 11:34 am Houston time, Nauka unexpectedly started to fire its movement thrusters.
Within minutes, the space station began to lose attitude control. This was a problem for several reasons. First of all, the station requires a certain attitude to maintain signal with geostationary satellites and talk to Mission Control on the ground. Also, solar arrays are positioned to collect power based upon this predetermined attitude.
Another concern is G forces on the station's structure. The various components of the extensive space station were assembled in microgravity and designed to operate at zero-G. So even small stresses on the vehicle can induce small cracks or other problems with the station's structure.
For all of these reasons, space station flight controllers in Houston and Moscow acted quickly after the station started to drift. Attitude control was fully lost at 11:42 am, and engines on the space station's service module were fired. This was followed by a handover to the Russian Progress vehicle attached to the station, which began to fire its thrusters. This tug-of-war offset the Nauka module thruster activity, which eventually stopped after fuel supplies were exhausted. By 12:29 pm on Thursday, attitude control was restored. It made for quite an hour on the ground and in space.
[...] By late Thursday afternoon, when NASA officials held a teleconference to brief reporters, the situation appeared to be well in hand.
Previously:
Russia's MLM Nauka Makes Triumphant Docking to ISS.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Friday July 30 2021, @07:29PM (26 children)
How much of this project was outsourced to China?
(Score: 5, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Friday July 30 2021, @07:42PM (1 child)
Sure is interesting how a certain political persuasion cannot help but jerk their knee in defense of Russia...
(Score: 2) by RedGreen on Friday July 30 2021, @09:40PM
"Sure is interesting how a certain political persuasion cannot help but jerk their knee in defense of Russia..."
Yes them Republicans it was putrid watching the kiss Putin's ass all the time.
"I modded down, down, down, and the flames went higher." -- Sven Olsen
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @07:50PM (8 children)
...or China (who actually uses genocide, slavery and murders "prisoners" for the human organ trade).
Keep your blinders on nice and tight, you super-special, kind, progressive dip5h1+!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @07:53PM (7 children)
^Meant for the Monkey of Death
(Score: 3, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Friday July 30 2021, @08:04PM (6 children)
I don't defend China.
But if I did, I would come up with something better than "whatabout Russia."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @08:13PM (2 children)
And I don't defend the monkey people.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @11:15PM
Journey west, young monkey?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @04:43AM
Think we should tell em they are monkey people? NM who wants to clean up that mess...
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @10:17PM (2 children)
And I wasn't defending Russia.
Just pointing out the irony of your own knee-jerk reaction which was to point your finger back at Russia, Russia, Russia!.
Must suck to automatically believe everything the MSM dumps in what's left of your head. There's a reason we call your type "NPCs".
(Score: 2, Funny) by Tork on Saturday July 31 2021, @01:49AM (1 child)
Heh. It's amazing how many people unironically say virtually the same thing you are, acronyms and all... almost like they're all hearing it from the same place.
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday July 31 2021, @06:00PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @07:57PM (3 children)
Actually, China is the one getting good ol' Soviet expertise for their space pogrom.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Friday July 30 2021, @08:07PM (1 child)
I guess Bezos and Musk got our laid off space designers.
The US Congress did not need them anymore.
We have too many homeless problems resulting from factory workers who used to have a job.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @08:14PM
Who got the laid off web designers? Maybe we can blame them!
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday July 31 2021, @03:00PM
US also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-180 [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @08:39PM
You think the Russians can't wreck a space station on their own?
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday July 30 2021, @08:42PM (2 children)
How much of this project was outsourced to China?"
...or Russia.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @08:53PM (1 child)
Or USA unionized lazy white trash.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @03:03PM
Hey now, we also have lots of lazy brown and black trash. (and lots of very motivated & productive of all colors)
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Tork on Friday July 30 2021, @09:45PM
There we go, with that line of questioning we can drill STRAIGHT down to the answers!
🏳️🌈 Proud Ally 🏳️🌈
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 30 2021, @11:57PM (2 children)
Don't you know anything? Like the drunken (redundant?) rusky said:
"American parts, Russian parts - it's all made in China!"
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @03:39AM (1 child)
The quote was "all made in Taiwan!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @05:34AM
You quote your drunk Russian, we'll quote our drunk Russian. What - you thought your Russian was the only one who could speak English?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @11:04AM (1 child)
Bullshit. Russians made this disaster themselves. Because they do this on the cheap and 'fuck it all, it will fly now because almost 20 years delayed'..
This is 100% pure Russian issue caused by cutting corners. Anyway, I'm just glad it didn't crash into the station like the Progress ship crashed into MIR some 20+ years ago. So at least that's a positive.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 31 2021, @03:21PM
It is possible to cut costs without being hot garbage. SpaceX is proof of that. The core problem is the "fuck it all" attitude as you put it that permeates Russian society. It was bad under the Communists and despite a brief glimmer of hope after the wall came down has only gotten worse under Putin.
Like you I'm glad that the immediate danger passed without lasting harm but I don't think Nauka's problems are over. I just hope it doesn't catch fire.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Saturday July 31 2021, @02:01PM
"Russian components, American components ... ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!"
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.