Story of what went on last night, seems to be, as I understand it, open to correction etc.
Immediately on docking Nauka’s attitude control system was meant to have been in effect disabled TFN. Initially that seemed to have happened.
Well after docking, for some reason (software fault onboard/on ground?) Nauka’s attitude control system became active again and there then began an attitude tug of war as Nauka decided it wanted to point in a certain direction and the ISS, not wanting to budge, fought back using the attitude control system on one of the other docked vehicles.
Battle finally ended when Nauka’s system was shut down /? ran out of fuel.
In public statements Russians are being somewhat blasé about what happened…don’t see need for enquiry.
NASA not saying much in public….being diplomatic…in public…
Last edited by wiggy; 30th Jul 2021 at 16:05.