More recently, the arrival of the Nauka module at the ISS sent it into a spin, literally.Īlmost 15 years late for its first planned launch, when the Roscosmos (Russian space agency) lab docked in July 2021, an unplanned burn of its engines caused the whole ISS to rotate one and a half times before the fuel ran out. Said to be caused by a drill slip during a repair job on Earth, it was patched up with epoxy and tape.
Who can forget the tool bag that drifted slowly away from a spacewalking astronaut’s desperate grasp in November 2008.Ī decade later, in August 2018, the crew, alerted to a sudden drop in cabin pressure, discovered a tiny 2mm hole in the Russian Soyuz module that was docked with the ISS. In September of 1999, after almost 10 months of travel to Mars, the Mars Climate Orbiter burned and broke into pieces. 1, 1999 12 AM PT TIMES SCIENCE WRITER NASA lost its 125-million Mars Climate Orbiter because spacecraft engineers failed to convert. Humanity’s orbiting outpost, the International Space Station (ISS), hasn’t been immune from mishap either. Mars Probe Lost Due to Simple Math Error By ROBERT LEE HOTZ Oct. Without enough power, poor Beagle couldn’t even muster a lonely howl from the dusty surface. However, there was no Christmas Day greeting from the Red Planet, just an ominous silence.ĮSA eventually learned what had become of Beagle 2 in January 2015, after images of it on the Martian surface revealed that it had touched down but hadn’t deployed all its solar panels. In what was to have been a triumph for the European Space Agency (ESA), Beagle 2 was despatched to Mars with a touchdown date of 25 December 2003. (CNN) - NASA lost a 125 million Mars orbiter because one engineering team used metric units while another used English units for a key spacecraft operation, according to a review finding released. NASAs Mars Climate Orbiter was lost in space last week because engineers failed to make a simple conversion from English units to metric, an embarrassing. An artist's impression of the Mars Climate Orbiter.
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