Published: June 15, 2007
MOSCOW (AP) : The crew of the international space station and support staff on the ground have been unable to pinpoint the source of a computer failure on the orbital outpost's Russian module that is affecting its orientation, a space official said Friday.
The six computers in the station's Russian segment broke down earlier this week, and attempts to find the reason and fix the problem have failed, said Valery Lyndin, the spokesman for Russia's Mission Control outside Moscow.
Lyndin stressed that "the lives of the crew are not in danger" and there were no plans to evacuate the crew. He said the station's oxygen-regeneration and all basic life-support systems were functioning properly.
However, he said, the station's orientation system was affected, because the broken computers control thrusters on the Russian module that are fired to orient the station toward the sun so its solar panels can soak up the maximum amount of energy.
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