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ISS Orbit-Raising Attempt Fails
hpulley writes "ITAR-TASS reports that the Progress cargo ship currently docked at the ISS attempted an orbit raising burn this morning but the engine failed three minutes into the firing. Further burns are cancelled until they figure out the problem and meanwhile, the station continues to lose approximately a kilometer of altitude every week, with the rate increasing as the orbit decays. At present, the schedule says the next Progress, 20P, will be launched on December 21st, nearly 9 weeks from now. Normally the shuttle would also raise the orbit of ISS but it is not scheduled to launch until May 3rd at the earliest. Nominally the ISS orbits at 358km but if it drops to 300km, it may decay in a matter of days. It was down to 340km already on October 13th."
It's tempest in a teapot, not a teacup.
Just because it CAN be done, doesn't mean it should!
Chicken Little opens November 4th!
lexbaby
"Be Brave, Be Loyal, Be True." -- Hawkeye Pierce
What the curtains?
NO! Not the curtains, lad, all that you can see stretched before you!
But Mother
Father! I'm Father!
But Father, I don't want any of that.
Listen, lad. I've built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was a black hole. The king said I was daft to build a castle near a black hole, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the black hole. So, I built a second one. That sank into the black hole. So I built a third one. That burned up, imploded, then sank into the black hole. But the fourth one stayed up. An' that's what your gonna get, lad... the strongest castle in space.
But I don't want any of that... I'd rather
Rather what?!
I'd rather... just... sing!
Stop that, stop that! You're not going to do a song while I'm here. Now listen lad, in twenty minutes you're getting married to a girl whose father owns the biggest tracts of open space in the Milky Way.
But I don't want Land.
Now listen Alice
Herbert...
Herbert! We live in a bloody black hole, we need all the space we can get!
This sig isn't original enough, it's time to come up with something witty...
Taco Bell is already in the process of a "Hit here and win a free taco for every American" tarp that they plan on floating out to sea.
Do what I say, cuz I said it.
-Meatwad
Heh. You are defending evolution when you can't even spell moran right. I bet you also think you are decended from Charleton Heston.
I drank what? -- Socrates
> Yeah, but gravity is only a theory. It isn't a fact
> Just like gravity is a fact but the Theory of Gravity is not.
> Pissing off the religious right at every opportunity and proud of it
You mean pissing off people who realize they've wasted their time trying to make sense of your posts.
It's not a lie. It's the truth with lossy compression.