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“The engine of the module started unexpectedly and unexpectedly at 12 noon. 45 min. [JAV] East Coast (7:45 p.m., Lithuania) and rotated the station 45 degrees, NASA said in a statement. “After the restoration work, the station has returned to its normal position, there is no danger to the crew.”
The agency said that to compensate for the momentum provided by the Nauka engine, the engines of the TKS Zvezda module and the Progress cargo pod had to be started. Russia’s Roskosmos space agency said the incident was due to fuel residue from the Nauka module.
Earlier on Thursday, Thursday, Nauka successfully merged with TKS.
The images published by Roskosma show the Russian TKS segment at 4 pm 29 min. In Lithuanian time, a new part was added, connected to the connection of the Zvezda service module directed to Earth.
The module will be fully integrated into the space station in just a few months and with more than one astronaut going into space.
The Nauka module, carried by the Russian Proton missile, went into orbit last week from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The launch was closely monitored by the European Space Agency (ESA), as the European Robotic Arm, the first cybernetic manipulator to operate in the Russian TKS segment, was launched into space together with the module.
The “Science” module (Russian: “Science”) will be used primarily for research and storage of laboratory equipment.
Nauka will also provide more storage space and new water and oxygen recovery systems, in addition to improving the living conditions of astronauts working in the Russian TKS sector.
The “Nauka” multifunctional laboratory module was designed in the mid-1990s. It was then planned to become a backup equipment for the Russian Zaria control module.
It was later redesigned as a science module, but became another Russian space project stuck due to lack of funds or bureaucratic procedures.
The 20-ton Nauka, one of the larger TKS modules, was originally scheduled to launch in 2007, but was delayed several times due to various issues.
Although last week’s flight was a success, Nauka encountered several “minor obstacles in orbit” during its eight-day trip to TKS, the European Space Agency said.
Nauka replaces the long-life Pirs Fusion Module, which was merged with TKS in 2001 as a temporary add-on, but has been in operation for two decades.
Leaving the Nauka site, Pirs broke away from the station earlier this week and burned up in Earth’s atmosphere, with its remains falling into the Pacific Ocean.
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