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What's the latest on the SARJ damage/repair?
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What's the latest on the SARJ damage/repair?
The latest that I read was from November 24, 2007 and said that they did a spacewalk which gave them new information about what is broken, but don't seem to yet have decided how/when to fix it: http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0711...va/index3.html Perhaps there is something more recent. According to that article something needs to be done before Kibo is to be launched (currently April). |
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On 29 Nov 2007 16:24:42 -0500, Jim Kingdon wrote:
What's the latest on the SARJ damage/repair? The latest that I read was from November 24, 2007 and said that they did a spacewalk which gave them new information about what is broken, but don't seem to yet have decided how/when to fix it: http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0711...va/index3.html Perhaps there is something more recent. According to that article something needs to be done before Kibo is to be launched (currently April). It might be that the two SARJs were manufactured slightly different. The debris have been analyzed as being a nitride finish on the race way that seems to be spalling off. The other SARJ may not have the same or any nitride finish. Normally a nitride finish would improve the machine. But perhaps not in space. Metals in contact in vacuum may have a greater tendency to spall than in normal atmosphere. Spalling seems somewhat mysterious, as does nitride finishing. Wiki reference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spall |
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Sir Frederick wrote:
On 29 Nov 2007 16:24:42 -0500, Jim Kingdon wrote: What's the latest on the SARJ damage/repair? The latest that I read was from November 24, 2007 and said that they did a spacewalk which gave them new information about what is broken, but don't seem to yet have decided how/when to fix it: http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0711...va/index3.html Perhaps there is something more recent. According to that article something needs to be done before Kibo is to be launched (currently April). It might be that the two SARJs were manufactured slightly different. The debris have been analyzed as being a nitride finish on the race way that seems to be spalling off. The other SARJ may not have the same or any nitride finish. Normally a nitride finish would improve the machine. But perhaps not in space. Metals in contact in vacuum may have a greater tendency to spall than in normal atmosphere. Spalling seems somewhat mysterious, as does nitride finishing. Wiki reference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spall Well, let's not forget the EVA crew lost two cover bolts on that joint. One of them could be up in the mechanism. Mike Ross |
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"Mike Ross" wrote in message . .. Sir Frederick wrote: It might be that the two SARJs were manufactured slightly different. The debris have been analyzed as being a nitride finish on the race way that seems to be spalling off. The other SARJ may not have the same or any nitride finish. Normally a nitride finish would improve the machine. But perhaps not in space. Metals in contact in vacuum may have a greater tendency to spall than in normal atmosphere. Spalling seems somewhat mysterious, as does nitride finishing. Wiki reference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spall Well, let's not forget the EVA crew lost two cover bolts on that joint. One of them could be up in the mechanism. This would actually be a good thing to discover, since a manufacturing defect in the raceway, like a nitride finish, would likely be on the other (backup) side of the defective raceway. From what I remember reading the raceways were manufactured to be double sided, so you have a backup side available. The downside to this is that NASA isn't sure how many EVA's would be required to flip the raceway(s) and replace all the other damaged components. Jeff -- A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein Jeff |
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On 29 Nov, 19:06, Mike Ross
wrote: Sir Frederick wrote: On 29 Nov 2007 16:24:42 -0500, Jim Kingdon wrote: What's the latest on the SARJ damage/repair? The latest that I read was from November 24, 2007 and said that they did a spacewalk which gave them new information about what is broken, but don't seem to yet have decided how/when to fix it: http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0711...va/index3.html Perhaps there is something more recent. According to that article something needs to be done before Kibo is to be launched (currently April). It might be that the two SARJs were manufactured slightly different. The debris have been analyzed as being a nitride finish on the race way that seems to be spalling off. The other SARJ may not have the same or any nitride finish. Normally a nitride finish would improve the machine. But perhaps not in space. Metals in contact in vacuum may have a greater tendency to spall than in normal atmosphere. Spalling seems somewhat mysterious, as does nitride finishing. Wiki reference :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spall Well, let's not forget the EVA crew lost two cover bolts on that joint. One of them could be up in the mechanism. Mike Ross- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Actually the lost bolts and washers were on the other side of the station (P3/P4 truss segment). One did however get "lost" inside the truss. http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn10067 The broken SARJ is on the S3/S4 truss segment. |
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