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It's an almost 30 year old nearly 500 ton structure subjected to radiation, bombardment by starstuff and debris, the stresses of docking and undocking, of boost
by Kye 3mo ago
It's an almost 30 year old nearly 500 ton structure subjected to radiation, bombardment by starstuff and debris, the stresses of docking and undocking, of boosts, and of constant heating and cooling as it passes in and out of the sun. Getting a clear picture of the comings and going of gasses is probably not easy.
- saltcured 3mo agoTake away the mass figure, and it happens to all of us eventually ;-)
- whycome 3mo agoAre there things that happen on board that increase the pressure - eg fermentation whether it’s experiment or in humans?
- lostfiddler 3mo agoHumans can ferment?
- Tuna-Fish 3mo agoAlso in 2021, Nauka (the cursed Russian module) arrived on the station, and accidentally fired thrusters while attached, fighting against the attitude control of the station, flipping it around 540 degrees and putting a lot of stress that the station wasn't designed for on all the structural parts.
- dmos62 3mo agoI'm proud of us that multiple nations can coordinate such a complicated project for so long.
- testing22321 3mo agoSomehow I never heard about that. Do you know of a good article that goes into detail about it? Thanks
- Tuna-Fish 3mo agoThis is a decent overview: https://www.engineering.com/the-nauka-module-iss-mishap-what-happened/ https://www.engineering.com/the-nauka-module-iss-mishap-what... It was surreal to follow when it was happening, NASA was seriously underplaying what was going on and it was up to amateurs with telescopes looking at the station to tell the world that the situation is still ongoing. This is one of the three major mishaps related to Nauka.