NEight days later, the International Space Station has a Russian research module International Space Station Arrival-An incident occurred after the docking. The module’s engine “accidentally and accidentally” ignited and caused the International Space Station to deviate from its normal orbit by 45 degrees, NASA announced via Twitter on ThursdayAfter that, another rocket launch scheduled for Friday was cancelled.
It said that the International Space Station was able to resume its normal flight path through emergency operations. The crew has never been in danger, and all systems on the International Space Station and the ship are operating normally.However, she lost NASA Controlled the position of the space station in space for nearly an hour. As a result, contact with the crew was also interrupted for eleven minutes.
“Starliner” test flight postponed
Prior to this, the research module “Nauka” (science) was docked at a human outpost as planned, at an altitude of about 400 kilometers, like a Roskosmos live broadcast Already shown. Several field missions by Russian astronauts are now planned to be completed.
After the incident, NASA announced an indefinite postponement of the “Starliner” spacecraft originally scheduled to be launched from Boeing to the International Space Station on Friday. This unmanned test flight aims to lay the foundation for future astronauts to take the “interstellar airliner” to the space station.
In fact, this should have happened a long time ago, but in the first test in December 2019, the spacecraft did not enter orbit and the International Space Station due to the auto-ignition problem of the drive. Postpone “give the International Space Station team time to continue testing the newly arrived “Nauka” module from Roskosmos and make sure the station is ready for the arrival of “Starliner”, it said.
“Nauka” will replace the abandoned module “Pirs” (landing phase) of the Russian part of the space station that recently broke off and sank in the Pacific Ocean. As a multifunctional module, “Nauka” is mainly used for research. The module was launched from Kazakhstan on the launcher about a week ago and is also intended to be used as a crew quarters with its own life support system. It measures 13 x 4.11 meters and weighs more than 20 tons.
In fact, “Nauka” should have been sent into space in 2007. Problems always cause delays. The last module was sent to the human outpost by Russia eleven years ago.
