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Old February 24th 04, 03:31 AM
dave schneider
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Default ISS Status Report No. 10 - 2004

"Jacques van Oene" forwarded:

International Space Station Status Report #04-10
4 p.m. CST, Friday, February 20, 2004
Expedition 8 Crew

[...]
This week, Russian specialists positively identified a piece of debris seen
floating by the Station's port side on Sunday. Photographs taken by Foale
and Kaleri through a window in the Zvezda module showed a bolt and an
accompanying washer. From a part number that was visible in the picture, the


!!!!!


items were identified as coming from a mechanism that held the Progress ship
's starboard solar array in place during launch. Those items, which served
no purpose after the array was deployed prior to its arrival at ISS, drifted
slowly away from the Station and pose no danger. Russian specialists are
studying how to prevent similar bolts on other ships from coming loose in
the future.



Wow -- that must have been a pretty good picture!

Was the previous debris sighting related to a Progress event?

/dps