Posted on 08/02/2021 1:53:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin
NASA...repeated during public comments about the incident that the orbiting lab tilted about 45 degrees... Zebulon Scoville, the NASA flight director leading mission control in Houston during the event, says the station tilted far more severely than just 45 degrees.
According to Scoville...after Nauka incorrectly fired up, the station "spun one-and-a-half revolutions — about 540 degrees — before coming to a stop upside down. The space station then did a 180-degree forward flip to get back to its original orientation,"...
Scoville took over mission control after the docking. It was actually his day off, but he was on site because he'd helped to prepare for the module docking and wanted to see how it went. He ended up taking over from the previous lead, Gregory Whitney, who had a meeting to attend, after docking, thinking it would be smooth sailing from there. But soon, a caution warning lit up.
Nauka was not only firing its thrusters, but that it was trying to actually pull away from the space station that it had just docked with. And he was soon told that the module could only receive direct commands from a ground station in Russia, which the space station wouldn't pass over for over an hour.
According to Scoville, the station reached a rotation rate maximum of 0.56 degrees per second.
The crew, working together with ground teams, helped to counteract Nauka's thrusters by counter-firing thrusters on the Russian module Zvezda and Progress cargo ship. Additionally, 15 minutes after starting to fire, Nauka's thrusters stopped, though Scoville said he didn't know why the thrusters did so.
But this combined series of events and counteractive measures allowed the team to get the station to stop moving and return to its correct position.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Trump’s fault [Russia, Russia, Russia...].
Good Gosh. .56 degrees per second seems like a HUGE amount for that structure.
This is not the NASA that I grew up with in the 60's that NASA that made every boy want to grow up and be an astronaut or aerospace engineer.
The new NASA is full of mealy mouthed weasels just like the rest of the government.
Pretty hard to prove in a zero G environment.
Boats and barges are often steered by a tugboat, aircraft are steered on the ground by a tug, so why not a space tug?
...I'm a space cowboy, I'm sure you weren't ready for that...
Maybe not. If you normally see the blackness of space and suddenly you see the earth, then you might be upside down.
My first thought upon hearing this was the Clint Eastwood movie “Space Cowboys “. Whenever Russia is involved, lying WILL take place!
Andrei ... have you lost another submarine?
Chinese PLA hackers ...
Well, other than the solar array pointing in the wrong direction. Or doesn’t that count?
This illustrates how a bad actor could “mine” the ISS and destroy the whole complex with one relatively compact device.
The mine would consist of a single thruster, fuel tank(s) and some method of attaching to the ISS. After stealthily sneaking up and attaching itself to the ISS at a predetermined spot, the thruster would fire and the ISS would shortly spin itself into pieces.
Mostly like the device itself would burn up in the atmosphere with the rest of the debris and all evidence would be destroyed and/or dropped into the deep blue sea. All we would know is the ISS spun out of control and disintegrated. Bad scene.
If we actually have a Space Force which does things in space, countering mines is presumably an objective. I hope.
The russians wanted to destroy the iss, maing it appear to be accidental...?
They are leaving it in a few years anyway. Trash it so they can be the only,ones with a space station.
Send Team Daedalus back up, there’s 3 members still alive.
“After doing that back flip one-and-a-half times around, it stopped and then went back the other way,”
The aliens watching this must have been confused about what the earthman were doing.
NASA thought the russians were drinking again...
180 degree forward flip while spinning?
Now that’s Olympic gold right there - what a ride!
DH offers - 20percent of reserve fuel used up? (normal altitude ajustments etc) and no new shipment for a few weeks
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