International Space Station reports scare after engine trouble with new Russian module
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Russia’s Nauka space module caused a scare on the International Space Station Thursday after its engines inexplicably lit up the hours after it docked in orbit.
During a livestream of the event, Mission Control in Houston said that NASA had "temporarily lost orientation control as the result of inadvertent thrust firings" and that the error had knocked the station of alignment by "about 45 degrees." NASA later tweeted that Mission Control and the crew aboard the station had corrected the orientation and all systems were operating normally. The ISS has to be oriented precisely in order for its solar panels and radio equipment to work properly – and the station lost contact with ground control twice during the incident.More Related News