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Space Station Suffers Power Glitch

Posted by Hemos on from the bad-times-in-space dept.

TheSexican writes "As if the MRO's vision problems weren't enough, it seems that NASA has another problem on their hands as of late. " The problem itself has been solved; one of the solar power array went off line, and had to be repaired, but is back up and working.

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  1. What's that thing for? by Dr.+Spork · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hey, are we acually doing anything in that space station, except fixing it?

    1. Re:What's that thing for? by beh · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Even continuing to fix it IS useful - if only to teach future space missions what kind of problems evolve over time. (i.e. for a lot of things you might be able to do a "quick and dirty" hack, if all you need it for is a day or two... For a space ship to be in space for months or even years, we do need to know more about the actual degradation of materials in the conditions out there...

      But - even with the regular repairs, I would still think they're doing SOME research - even if that might not be quite is visible in the headlines as "read all about the latest power outage!"...