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Cooling Pump Malfunction On ISS

Posted by Soulskill on from the no-la-forge-door-rolls-required dept.

eldavojohn writes "On Saturday at 8pm GMT, the crew of the International Space Station awoke to alarm bells as one of two ammonia pumps shut down due to a spike in power. Their backup cooling (Loop B) is functioning as designed and NASA released an official statement: 'The crew is in no danger, but will need to work additional troubleshooting on Sunday to keep the station in a stable configuration, including the installation of a jumper cable to maintain proper cooling to the Zarya module in the Russian segment.'"

3 of 86 comments (clear)

  1. frist psot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    cooling is pants

    1. Re:frist psot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Fuck you.

  2. Re:Hmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anybody know why they would have gone with that?

    Would have gone with what? Do you mean why they did go with ammonia?