Russians happened to overthrow the space station

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Published July 30, 2021 at 7:54 pm

Space. The International Space Station ISS ended up on the sidelines yesterday and lost radio contact with Earth after a new Russian space module docked with the station. It reports several media outlets.

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The docking of the space laboratory Nauka, Russian for “Science”, initially went as planned. But three hours after the module docked with the space station, the module's rocket motors, which are normally used to disconnect it from the station again, were unexpectedly started.

was started to try to stabilize the station. After that, there was a tug of war between the two Russian modules for a while.

The result was that the entire space station ended up on the side, at most 45 degrees oblique to what its normal orbit around the earth looks like, which in turn led to The ISS periodically lost radio contact with Earth.

For 45 minutes, the astronauts had no control over the ISS. However, after Nauka's rocket engines were shut down, they managed to regain control of the space station. The Russian space agency Roscosmos writes in a press release that the incident was caused by a software error.

There are currently two Russian cosmonauts and three astronauts from the USA, one from France and one from Japan on board the ISS. Nasa states that the Russian perilous flight with the ISS never posed a danger to the seven astronauts on board.