{"id":315289,"date":"2021-08-04T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/impact-of-space-station-spin-requires-study-official-says\/"},"modified":"2021-08-04T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T19:10:00","slug":"impact-of-space-station-spin-requires-study-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/impact-of-space-station-spin-requires-study-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"#Impact of space station spin requires study, official says"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Impact of space station spin requires study, official says<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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MOSCOW \u2014 Space engineers will analyze whether a glitch that caused the International Space Station to spin out of its normal orientation could have impacted any of its systems, a Russian space official said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Sergei Krikalev, the director of crewed space programs at the Russian space corporation Roscosmos, emphasized that last week\u2019s incident did not inflict any observable damage to the space station, but he said that experts would need to study its potential implications.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt app<\/a>ears there is no damage,\u201d Krikalev said in an interview broadcast by Russian state television. \u201cBut it\u2019s up to specialists to assess how we have stressed the station and what the consequences are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thrusters on Russia\u2019s Nauka laboratory module fired shortly after the module arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, making the orbiting outpost slowly spin about one-and-a-half revolutions. Russia\u2019s mission controllers fired thrusters on another Russian module and a Russian cargo ship attached to the space station to stop rotation and then push the station back to its normal position.<\/p>\n

Both US and Russian space officials said the station\u2019s seven-person crew wasn\u2019t in danger during the incident.<\/p>\n

The station needs to be properly aligned to get the maximum power from solar panels and to maintain communications with space support teams back on Earth. The space station\u2019s communications with ground controllers blipped out twice for a few minutes on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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In this photo provided by Roscosmos Space Agency Press Service, a Proton-M booster rocket carrying the Nauka module blasts off from the launch pad at Russia\u2019s space facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, July 21, 2021. <\/figcaption>
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NASA said in a tweet Tuesday that the station was 45 degrees out of alignment when Nauka\u2019s thrusters were still firing and loss of control was discussed with the crew.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurther analysis showed total attitude change before regaining normal attitude control was (tilde)540 degrees,\u201d NASA said, emphasizing that the \u201cstation is in good shape and operating normally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roscosmos\u2019 Krikalev, a veteran of six space missions who spent a total of 803 days in orbit, noted Wednesday that firing orientation engines created a dynamic load on the station\u2019s components, making a thorough analysis of whether some of them could be overstressed necessary.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe station is a rather delicate structure and both the Russian and the US segments are built as light as possible,\u201d he said. \u201cAn additional load stresses the drivers of solar batteries and the frames they are mounted on. Specialists will analyze the consequences and it is too early to talk about how serious it was, but it was an unforeseen situation that requires a detailed study.\u201d<\/p>\n

Krikalev said Nauka\u2019s engines fired because a glitch in the control system mistakenly assumed that the lab module hadn\u2019t yet docked at the station and activated the thrusters to pull it away.<\/p>\n

The launch of the 22-ton (20-metric-ton) module has been repeatedly delayed by technical problems. It was initially scheduled to go up in 2007, but funding problems pushed the launch back and in 2013 experts found contamination in its fuel system, resulting in a long and costly replacement. Other Nauka systems also underwent modernization or repairs.<\/p>\n

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This Thursday, July 29, 2021 image provided by NASA shows the 22-ton Nauka module, also called the Multipurpose Laboratory Module as it approaches the International Space Station space station. Russia\u2019s long-delayed lab module successfully docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, eight days after it was launched from the Russian space launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. <\/figcaption>
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Nauka is the first new compartment for the Russian segment of the International Space Station since 2010, offering more space for scientific experiments and room for the crew. Russian crew members will have to conduct up to 11 spacewalks beginning in early September to prepare it for operation.<\/p>\n

The space station is currently operated by NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur; Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet.<\/p>\n

In 1998, Russia launched the station\u2019s first compartment, Zarya, which was followed in 2000 by another big piece, Zvezda and three smaller modules in the following years. The last of them, Rassvet, arrived at the station in 2010.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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