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Operation To Correct ISS Orbit Fails
Moscow (AFP) Oct 19, 2005 An attempt by scientists to raise the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) by some 10 kilometers (six miles) failed on Wednesday, Russian space officials said. A number of the engines of the Progress M-54 cargo ship, which was supposed to lift the ISS, shut down shortly after the start of the manoeuvre, an official at Russia's mission control centre was quoted by the RIA-Novosti news agency as saying. "At roughly the 170th second of the operation, several engines shut down by themselves... the orbit correction was suspended and experts are now examining the reasons," the official said. Officials are trying to establish what went wrong before attempting to re-start the operation, the official said. The ISS is currently home to a Russian cosmonaut, Valery Tokarev, and US astronaut William McArthur. Separately on Wednesday, an official with Russia's Roscosmos space agency said scientists had lost control of Russia's new earth-monitoring satellite, the Monitor-E, intended for research purposes including mapping and monitoring pollution. Specialists had done "everything possible to bring the apparatus back under control, but so far have not succeeded," the Roskosmos official, Vyacheslav Davidenko, told RIA-Novosti. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Space Station News at Space-Travel.Com
NASA Had No Choice But To Buy Soyuz Flights
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 09, 2006NASA's announcement last week that it will pay Roskosmos $43.6 million for a round-trip ride to the International Space Station this spring, and an equivalent figure for an as-yet-undetermined number of future flights to the station until 2012, represents the agency's acknowledgment that it had no alternative. |
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