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I didn't follow everything in detail this time. What was with that problem they were talking about?

• ramidarigaz 14y ago
  The capsule's thrusters had a blockage which prevented them from maneuvering and deploying the solar panels. They managed to clear the blockage just fine.
  • DeepDuh 14y ago
    Interesting. Did they release informations on how they solved that? Also, don't they have some built in redundancy for the thrusters?
    • jlgreco 14y ago
      3 of 4 thruster packs experienced the issue; they need 2 of 4 to open the solar panels and 3 of 4 to dock with the ISS. From what I understand they got all 4 working again using the "water hammer" effect to clear the blockage, but I'm not sure how accurate that is.
      • DeepDuh 14y ago
        Imagine it's your job to fiddle around remotely with fuel pump electronics (or whatever may create that water hammer) within a time window of maybe 20 minutes or else you've just sunk a 100M investment somewhere in the ocean. Must be lots of fun o.O
        • pestaa 14y ago
          There's plenty of excitement for me just tweaking a live production server, not sure my heart could cope with what you just described.
    • ramidarigaz 14y ago
      I remember it being something about check valves in the oxidizer pressurization system. I don't recall where I read that, but it's probably not too hard to dig up (I'm just lazy).
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