NASA: the situation with the module "Science" is more serious than previously announced

On Thursday, July 29, the Nauka research module unexpectedly started its engines a few hours later

after docking with the ISS and pushed the International Space Station off its seat.NASA's flight director, Zebulon Scoville, said the event was more severe than NASA had originally reported.According to him, the space station has deployed much larger than the stated 45 degrees.

 He  stated that after Nauka ignited incorrectly, the station "made one and a half rotations — about 540 degrees — before coming to a stop.The station then had to be rotated another 180 degrees to return to its original position.Scoville also claimed to have declared an "emergency" on the ISS for the first time. 

As a result of the malfunctions, the ISS reached a maximum rotation speed of 0.56 degrees per second.Thankfully, it wasn't fast enough to hurt the astronauts. The crew, together with the ground teams, helped counteract the Nauka engines with the help of the engines of the Zvezda module and the Progress cargo spacecraft. After 15 minutes, Nauka's engines stopped for unknown reasons.

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