The crew members were not in danger, but the process consumed 29 kilograms of fuel due to an unnecessary maneuver
Avi Blizovsky
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A US-made navigation engine on the space station malfunctioned last Wednesday, February 9, 2005 aboard the International Space Station and drifted for several minutes without control. This was reported by the media in Russia on Thursday.
An unidentified source from the Russian control center told the Itar-Tass news agency that one of the gyrodins, which provide orientation and navigation capability to the station, stopped working on Wednesday due to an incorrect command from the control room at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Controllers in Russia urgently activated the engine of the Russian wing of the station to return the station to its correct position, and the ability to navigate returned after the Americans repaired the screw five and a half hours later, the source said. According to him, over 14 kg of fuel was wasted during the unplanned maneuver. In any case, there was no danger to the lives of the two station staff members, the American Roy Chiao and the Russian Selizian Sharipov.
In any case, next Wednesday, February 16, an ignition is planned that will cause the station to rise to a higher orbit by about 3 kilometers.
Ciao in the bubble
And in the meantime, NASA published an interesting photo of Leroy Chiao. "Even bubbles are more interesting in space. In this photo, a water bubble floats freely on the International Space Station. In the photo you can see the station's tenth crew member, Leroy Chiao. Chiao's image is inverted because light is reflected, or bent, as it passes from one medium to another. In this case from air to water. A phenomenon similar to the one that creates the rainbow when light passes through water droplets in the air.
Those of you who have downloaded the TOOLBAR of the science website have seen this image in the RSS FEED - NASA's Image of the Day.
For information on the NASA website
Yadan International Space Station
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