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Nauka module’s near miss raises concerns about future of space station
“Everything was going well, but there was a human factor.”…arstechnica.com
Naah. Don't put different "Press release, OP-ed, Analyses etc" out to be what is reality here.Nauka module’s near miss raises concerns about future of space station
“Everything was going well, but there was a human factor.”…arstechnica.com
Haha holy sh** throwing shade eh? Knew it was coming. Russia is obviously thinking about their own future needs with the modules and with the politics going on I'm not seeing a good future. I don't understand it. I'd rather have Russia with us rather than Russia with China or Russia alone. They have at times had major clusterf**ks but they have been pioneers in the space race and in spite of the brain drain they still have massive intellectual pool to draw from in cooperation. Frankly ruskies are primarily drawing away from us because we want Putin out. I don't think Russia teaming with China is a good idea for them because China cares for itself and have lately been pretty cool and arrogant towards the ruskies. But I'm just simplifying complex stuff thru my own biased lens. I don't want us to stop working together in space. I even wish Xi's China would work with us and we with them in space programs.
But that article was pretty toxic. Have heard the same language a couple times from translated russian aerospace articles. Not good. Was looking at my poster of ISS and the beautiful asymmetry of the russian side and the western side (not just western involvement but you know what I mean). I love both and I want the differences and also want the different parties to be at peace. At least when it comes to space.
Following this morning's docking of the Nauka module to the @Space_Station, the module's thrusters started firing at 12:45pm ET inadvertently and unexpectedly, moving the station 45 degrees out of attitude. Recovery operations have regained attitude and the crew is in no danger:
Update: @space_station was 45° out of attitude when Nauka's thrusters were still firing & loss of control was discussed with the crew. Further analysis showed total attitude change before regaining normal attitude control was ~540°. Station is in good shape & operating normally.
View: https://mobile.twitter.com/SpcPlcyOnline/status/1424785211158585352NASA ISS program manager Joel Montalbano says it’s a “little too early” to set a timeline for the investigation into the Nauka thruster firings that caused the station to lose attitude control July 29. NASA is in “regular communications” with Russian colleagues on this.
At #NG16 pre-launch
@Jeff_Foust
asked Joel Montalbano about status of investigation into what went wrong w/the Nauka misfire. Montalbano says he has set up a team, and Russians have set up a commission, and they talk regularly. May have more to say in 2-3 weeks.
Sounds like they are trying to shove it under the proverbial carpet.
Flight ST34 now scheduled on August 21
The investigations on the ground equipment at the origin of the interruption of the automatic launch sequence being completed, and the anomaly having been identified and corrected, the new launch date for Soyuz Flight ST34 is August 21, 2021:
> 06:18 p.m., in Washington, D.C., on August 20,
> 10:18 p.m., Universal Time (UTC), on August 20,
> 00:18 a.m., in Paris,
> 01:18 a.m., in Moscow,
> 03:18 a.m., Baïkonur Cosmodrome
The Soyuz launch vehicle and the 34 spacecraft OneWeb are in stable and safe conditions.
Today we have opened a window of the #Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module!
Soon there will be photos of the Earth from a new angle from the Russian segment of the @Space_Station.
Another short video of how we opened the window of the #Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module, as well as fascinating views of the Earth.
Do you recognize these places? Our journey begins!
COLORADO SPRINGS — NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said he remains confident that Russia will remain a part of the International Space Station through the end of the decade but warned of an emerging space race with China.
Speaking on a panel with the heads of seven other space agencies at the 36th Space Symposium here Aug. 25, Nelson said that he didn’t believe media reports out of the Russia from earlier this year that claimed Roscosmos might end its participation on the ISS as soon as the middle of the decade to develop its own station.
“Despite what you read in the press, I think that the cooperation with the Russians, which has been there ever since 1975, will continue,” he said, referring to the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission in 1975 when an Apollo spacecraft docked with a Soyuz spacecraft.
As evidence of that, he said, was the docking last month of a new Russian module, called Nauka, with the station. “We expect our Russian partners to continue with us, and we expect to expand the space station as a government project all the way to 2030.”
Nelson has long advocated an extension of the ISS to 2030, although the U.S. Congress has yet to formally authorize such an extension. Any extension of the ISS would require the agreement of the other station partners: Canada, Europe, Japan and Russia.
Russian cosmonauts have discovered new cracks in a segment of the International Space Station that could widen, a senior space official said on Monday, the latest in a series of setbacks.
“Superficial fissures have been found in some places on the Zarya module,” Vladimir Solovyov, chief engineer of rocket and space corporation Energia, told RIA news agency. “This is bad and suggests that the fissures will begin to spread over time.”
Despite threatening to pull Russia out of the International Space Station prematurely, the head of the country's space agency is now promising to remain NASA's partner at least until the orbiting outpost is eventually retired.
"This is a family, where a divorce within a station is not possible," Dmitry Rogozin told CNN in his first interview with western media since becoming Roscosmos' director general.
One message for home audiences, and one for foreign audiences perhaps?Interesting sudden U-turn there.