Photo: Roskosmos
An incident with a new module of Russia occurred on the ISS
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Engines on the Science Module suddenly started. After some time, the specialists managed to solve the problem.
On the ISS, after docking at the Russian module Nauka, the engines unplannedly turned on. About it testify ISS crew talks with Earth, broadcast on NASA Twitter on Thursday, July 29.
The problem during the docking was reported by Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky. He said the device’s motors spontaneously turned on.
After some time, experts managed to solve the problem, said Akihio Hoshide, a specialist at the Houston Mission Control Center.
“We are returning control of the station’s position in space,” Hoshide said.
Contact and capture, docking confirmed. At 9:29am ET, the @Roscosmos Nauka science module arrived at the Earth-facing side of the @Space_Station‘s Russian segment: pic.twitter.com/svwaYm5UGS
– NASA (@NASA) July 29, 2021
ICYMI: Earlier today, the Russian Nauka module inadvertently fired its thrusters while docked to the @Space_Station. Mission Control teams corrected the action and all systems are operating normally. The crew was never in any danger. Stay tuned for a media telecon later today: pic.twitter.com/bjuDmdiZu5
– NASA (@NASA) July 29, 2021
Recall that earlier space module Science docked with ISS… Earlier on the ISS, a docking space for Science was specially freed by removing the 20-year-old Pirs module, which was buried in the Pacific Ocean.
Pirs module that worked on the ISS for 20 years is flooded in the ocean
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