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Progress problems.
"Jeff Findley" wrote in message ... "Jochem Huhmann" wrote in message ... (Derek Lyons) writes: http://www.space.com/missionlaunches...sion_page.html As usual, problems with the all-singing, all-dancing Russian hardware go unremarked. Second docking attempt was successful. Seems at the first attempt one Kurs antenna didn't fold away as it should (at least they couldn't confirm it did). When I listened to the second docking attempt, I thought I heard the PAO commentator say the docking was done in automatic mode. So had the second docking attempt failed, presumably they could have attempted a manual docking. Personally, I'm more worried about the Elektron (Russian O2 generators) since they're both broken. Spare parts for one of the Elektron units are on this recently docked Progress, so hopefully they'll get one Elektron working soon. Here's a quote from today's CNN article about the Progress docking: It also carried equipment for repairing a Russian-built oxygen generator that overheated and spilled a toxic irritant last month, forcing the crew to don masks and gloves in the first emergency ever declared aboard the eight-year-old station. Even from a safety perspective, I'd be more worried about the Elektrons than Progress. Jeff -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919) |
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