ISS thrown out of control by misfire of Russian module

The International Space Station (ISS) was thrown briefly out of management on Thursday when jet thrusters of a newly arrived Russian analysis module inadvertently fired just a few hours after it was docked to the orbiting outpost, NASA officers stated. The seven crew members aboard – two Russian cosmonauts, three NASA astronauts, a Japanese astronaut and a European house company astronaut from France – had been by no means in any quick hazard, in response to NASA and Russian state-owned information company RIA.

Thursday’s mishap started about three hours after the multipurpose Nauka module had latched onto the house station. The module’s jets inexplicably restarted, inflicting your complete station to pitch out of its regular flight place some 250 miles above the Earth, U.S. house company officers stated. The "loss of attitudinal control" lasted for a little more than 45 minutes, until flight teams on the ground managed to restore the space station's orientation by activating thrusters on another module of the orbiting platform, according to Joel Montalbano, manager of NASA's space station programme.

But the malfunction prompted NASA to postpone until at least Aug. 3 its planned launch of Boeing's new CST-100 Starliner capsule on an uncrewed test flight to the space station. The Starliner had been set to blast off atop an Atlas V rocket on Friday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In its broadcast coverage of the incident, RIA cited NASA specialists at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, as describing the struggle to regain control of the space station as a "tug of war" between the two modules.