Station Solar Panel Joint Shavings

"Anthony Frost" wrote in message
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A quick look back last night didn't trigger an accurate memory as to
the original source, but the impression I got from the reports was that
a kit of spares had been part of the cargo for this flight anyway. They
are going to look at one of the other joints today to see if it is
showing the same symptoms but there are no plans to fit a replacement
bearing during the current visit. It will be left for the station crew
to fix it at a later date.

Today's NASA Spaceflight.com has a good article on this:

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/content/?cid=5269

Jeff
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On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:46:47 GMT, Brian Thorn
wrote:

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:43:10 -0000, "
wrote:


Good thing we have a spare and plenty of extra launches in case this is a
serious problem. Oh wait, we don't.

The astronauts have spare parts for the joint with them in orbit.

No, they don't.

Brian

According to the press conference after EVA 2 Mike Suffredini (sp)
explained that the entire joint either had redundant components or
they had ORUs stored on-ortbit.
Looks like some of them are located on the ESPs (see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Stowage_Platform) for some
details.