Oberg: "The real significance of the ISS thruster test failure"

(DA) wrote:

Derek Lyons wrote:

Are they seeing if ISS will remain stable if they throttle the
Soyuz/Progress pipeline for political advantage? Are they bored and
lacking adequate adult supervision? Do they know something about the
system that we don't? (Potential nightmare scenarios that end with
the propellants must be jettisoned/used.)

You are being paranoid. It is a valid experiment in itself to find out if
the thrusters are going to work after 6 years of non use.

When the thrusters were not supposed to ever be used again - and
indeed were supposed (IIRC) to be permanently deactivated years ago...
Then something is up and/or wrong when they test them 'to see if they
work'.
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