The entire International Space Station ( ISS ) was moved out of position yesterday when thenew Russian science mental faculty – the place ’s first new module in a decennium – misfunction after dockage . The module Nauka , the Russian Son for science , unknowingly fired its thruster about three time of day after it had successfully docked , causing the ISS to concisely become destabilise .
Russian spaceman had been checking for leak between the new module and the service module it had docked with when automatic sensing element on the priming coat detected the job . The unexpected thrust cause the ISS to lose mastery of its orientation foraround47 minute , pitch out of alignment at about half a level a second , allot to NASA in a press group discussion yesterday , but the work party was never in any danger , or in fact , felt any drive .
After the mishap moved the post 45 degrees out of altitude , flight controllers activated the thrusters on the Russian Zvezda segment and a Progress freighter to right the station , labor it back to its correct situation . The incident began at 12.34 postmortem EDT and was over by 1.29 Prime Minister EDT .
" What we catch today was just an awesome job by the mission control trajectory squad , " NASA ’s ISS syllabus managing director , Joel Montalbano , told newsman .
" Those guy were rock and roll star again and get us back in attitude control . That also shows you what a full-bodied vehicle we have , and our ability to take these contingencies , recover from them and move on . "
NASA ’s human spaceflight chiefKathy Luederscalled it"a jolly exciting hour . "
There is , however , one knock - on from the bad luck : NASA and Boeing have pushed back today ’s uncrewed test flight of Boeing ’s Starliner capsule , which will one day express astronauts to space .
" We wanted to give the ISS program fourth dimension to assess what had happened today , to find out the cause and make indisputable that they were really ready to sustain the Starliner launch , " Steve Stich , the manager of NASA ’s commercial crew programsaid in the conference . The earliest chance for a unexampled launching is Tuesday , August 3 , so watch this space for hopefully a play - free launch next workweek .
