Monday, December 3, 2012

ISS solar panel issue---guess Kraft/Abbey/Armstrong had a point re: shuttle capability!!

Too bad we can't bring up new panel---hmmmm, we put shuttle in museum!!

ISS partners look into causes of energy problems - TsNIIMash CEO

Interfax

A solar panel of the International Space Station (ISS) has been apparently damaged by a micro meteorite, General Director of the Central Research Institute of Machine-Building (TsNIIMash) Gennady Raikunov has told Interfax-AVN. "The cooling pipeline of a solar panel was apparently punctured. But nobody saw what punctured it or how. Therefore the particles were apparently small. Now all this situation is being studied. A set of measures to remove the problem is being developed," Raikunov told Interfax-AVN on Sunday. (NO FURTHER TEXT)

NASA

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