ISS Gyro Fixed Via Spacewalk

Teahouse writes "After a failed attempt last week, the ISS Astronauts finally got to fix the external gyroscope circut breaker in the station. Tests are being run today, but it looks like the ISS is back to having attitude stability with redundancy. This is particularly significant with the Shuttle being grounded for an extended period because the ISS would have had to use thruster fuel to keep the Station's solar panels pointed in the right direction without the gyroscopes, and no guarantee when more fuel would be arriving."

Comments

I for one...

[dark-br]

... welcome our new gyroscopic overlords!

Oh... come on... you were missing those silly jokes to! ;)

Re:Another space station dying of neglect?

[Saeger]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I believe the US is in an overt economic and political struggle with the People's Republic.

We ain't seen nothing yet. Multinational corporations (with no allegiance to the U.S.) outsourcing to cheap-China to sell back to the once-rich U.S. is only the beginning.

The bigger threat is from the fruits of increasing robotic automation being hoarded by the same multinational few who own the means of human-less production and fuck over everyone else who is now an unemployed "useless eater". These productivity gains need to be more evenly distributed, but that's not the corporate definition of "globalism".

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