Daily News & Analysis Astronauts replace space station's leaky ammonia pump. Monday, May 13, 2013, 15:57 IST | Place: Cape Canaveral (Florida). NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn put on spacesuits and left the space station's airlock shortly before 9 am.
Times LIVE NASA plans to send two astronauts aboard the International Space Station out on a spacewalk on Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in a cooling system on one of the station's solar arrays, the US space agency said on Friday.
Times of India Engineers concluded the source of the leaks was a pump that pushes ammonia coolant to regulate temperatures on one of the eight solar arrays, which provide electricity. Nasa officials said if a problem developed with a second cooling loop, the station ...
Geeky gadgets NASA was able to determine that the white flakes astronauts saw floating away into space were frozen flakes of ammonia . Ammonia is used on the space station to cool the massive solar power generation system. In order to fix the ammonia leak, astronauts ...
Ktoo It was unclear what caused the ammonia leak, NASA spokesman Rob Navias said, “but the installation of this spare pump package — at least at the moment — seems to ...
