* Astronomy

Members Login
Username 
 
Password 
    Remember Me  
Home -> Astronomy News -> Mission News -> International Space Station
Post Info
TOPIC: International Space Station
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
RE: ISS
Permalink  
 

The US space agency said the damage to wiring in a network box was intentional and obvious, but said it could be repaired before take-off on 7 August.
NASA stressed that the lives of its astronauts had not been put at risk.

Read more

A subcontractor working on the computer box reported a week ago that the internal wires appeared to have been sabotaged. The sabotage is believed to have happened at the subcontractor's locale, not within NASA.
The damaged computer, which had it  launched  to the ISS  would have only hindered the collection of  information as a new  main truss was being assembled  at the space station.
There was no risk to the astronauts aboard the space station.

__________________
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
Sabotage of computer
Permalink  
 

NASA hopes to fix the computer and launch it Aug. 7 as planned aboard Endeavour. The computer is designed for use aboard the space station, not the shuttle, and the damage would have posed no danger to either shuttle or station astronauts.

Read more

__________________
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
RE: ISS
Permalink  
 

A space program worker deliberately damaged a computer that is supposed to fly aboard the shuttle Endeavour in less than two weeks, an act of sabotage that was caught before the equipment was loaded onto the spaceship, NASA said Thursday.
The unidentified employee, who works for a NASA subcontractor, cut wires inside the computer that is supposed to be delivered to the international space station by Endeavour.

Read more

__________________
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
Permalink  
 

NASA has confirmed that a worker has tampered with a computer destined for the ISS.
A replacement computer was opened and wires inside were cut.
An investigation is underway.

__________________
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
Permalink  
 

International Space Station Imagery
Early Ammonia Servicer moves away from the International Space Station
High res (0.2mb) Low res (9kb)
An Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS) moves away from the International Space Station after it was jettisoned by astronaut Clay Anderson (out of frame), Expedition 15 flight engineer, during today's session of extravehicular activity (EVA). The EAS was installed on the P6 truss during STS-105 in August 2001, as an ammonia reservoir if a leak had occurred. It was never used, and was no longer needed after the permanent cooling system was activated last December.
Source NASA


-- Edited by Blobrana at 21:38, 2007-07-26

__________________
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program
Permalink  
 

Tommy Holloway, chair of the International Space Station (ISS) Safety Task Force and former ISS manager for NASA, told House lawmakers July 24 that he doubts the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program can make up for a "substantial part" of the projected ISS logistics shortfall in the crucial first few years after the space shuttle's 2010 retirement.
NASA projects a logistics shortfall of more than 6 tons even before the shuttle is retired. The shortfall grows to 120,000 pounds by the end of the station's service life in 2016, given resupply by Russian Progress vehicles, the European Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) and Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV).

Read more

__________________
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
RE: International Space Station
Permalink  
 

Litterbug astronauts have hurled almost a ton of junk off the International Space Station, including an old refrigeration system weighing 1400lb, risking a fiery meteoric death for innocent Earth-dwellers. In sharp contrast to green consumers worldwide, NASA has brazenly revealed that the fly tipping spacemen hadn't even used the fridge before throwing it overboard. Outrage is expected from the sandal-wearing, lentil-friendly elements of society.

Source

Junk5
Expand (44kb, 560 x 360)

__________________
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
RE: ISS
Permalink  
 

A space walking NASA astronaut pitched two large pieces of obsolete equipment off the International Space Station and into orbit yesterday.
A 1,400lb, refrigerator-sized reservoir that contains ammonia was cast overboard during a spacewalk by Clay Anderson, a station flight engineer, and his commander, the Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin. Mr Anderson also tossed away a 212lb camera mounting.

Read more

__________________
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
Space Junk
Permalink  
 

The ammonia tank drifts away

Junk4
Expand (40kb, 560 x 358)


Junk3
Expand (41kb, 560 x 356)

__________________
Blobrana


L

Posts: 131433
Date:
RE: ISS
Permalink  
 

Two International Space Station crew members Monday successfully wrapped up a 7-hour, 41-minute spacewalk that saw the removal and jettison of a refrigerator-size ammonia reservoir.
The spacewalk from the Quest Airlock ended at 18:06 GMT.
Astronaut Clay Anderson was the lead spacewalker, EV1, wearing the spacesuit with red stripes. Fyodor Yurchikhin, the cosmonaut and station commander, wearing the all-white suit, was EV2. Cosmonaut Oleg Kotov operated the Canadarm2 from the U.S. laboratory Destiny.

Read more

__________________
«First  <  1 … 34 35 36 37 38 … 57  >  Last»  | Page of 57  sorted by
Quick Reply

Please log in to post quick replies.
Home -> Astronomy News -> Mission News -> International Space Station


Create your own FREE Forum
Report Abuse 		Powered by ActiveBoard