Quote from: woods170 on 04/29/2022 09:20 am This is directly above 1 of the (now defunct) solar arrays of MLM Nauka. See image below.Are they permanently shunted? I thought Nauka would be providing power to the RS after the required cables were routed a few months ago...
This is directly above 1 of the (now defunct) solar arrays of MLM Nauka. See image below.
Quote from: eeergo on 04/29/2022 09:40 amQuote from: woods170 on 04/29/2022 09:20 am This is directly above 1 of the (now defunct) solar arrays of MLM Nauka. See image below.Are they permanently shunted? I thought Nauka would be providing power to the RS after the required cables were routed a few months ago...Temporarily defunct until the radiator is installed and activated.
Quote from: woods170 on 04/29/2022 08:29 pmQuote from: eeergo on 04/29/2022 09:40 amQuote from: woods170 on 04/29/2022 09:20 am This is directly above 1 of the (now defunct) solar arrays of MLM Nauka. See image below.Are they permanently shunted? I thought Nauka would be providing power to the RS after the required cables were routed a few months ago...Temporarily defunct until the radiator is installed and activated.Thank you for the follow up, I understand now. So they should be providing power as soon as the radiator is installed and activated later this year (late July or early August, as implied by the current scheduling of VKD-57), adding power to the RS (2x that generated currently by Zvezda? or even a bit more considering how old those arrays are...).
Is my conclusion correct that ERA now resides at base-point 2 and has it's not connected grapple fixture in front of base point 3. So after VKD-53, they continued moving ERA. By Grappling basepoint to with EE-1. And than moving EE-2 from basepoint 1 to base point 3. They must have been confident in ERA to continue these movements with only internal or ground observation.Is cosmonaut visual observation required for Grapping basepoint 3 with EE-2, or is there something wrong with this basepoint? Is that the step they plan to start with on VKD-54?
So EE-2 isn't functioning nominally. So they need to use the manual drive tools (a safety feature of ERA) to drive the EE-2 grapple fixture. This was the first use of ERA, so problems could be expected. Though unfortunate.ESA's track record on launching trouble free hardware isn't very well: MAR-ES, Bartolomeo, to name a couple.I'm sure they'll find a fix.