Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcher who wrote (202558)	11/11/2023 11:37:11 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217749

Butterfingered astronauts drop tool bag in space and it’s now orbiting Earth JOE PINKSTONE November 10, 2023 at 12:59 PM A photograph taken by Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa shows the tool bag orbiting Earth - eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SWNS A stray tool bag accidentally dropped by an astronaut on a space walk is currently orbiting Earth and has been caught on camera by a co-worker on the International Space Station (ISS). The kit bag was in the possession of Nasa astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara as they fixed a solar panel on the ISS last week, 200 miles above Earth. The bag was seen drifting into space at the end of the six-hour space walk and hasty calculations determined it was unlikely to pose any risk. The bag will now slowly orbit the Earth for several months before eventually entering our planet’s atmosphere and disintegrating. The blunder on Nov 1 was photographed by Satoshi Furukawa, a Japanese colleague of the Americans. Mr Furukawa is onboard the ISS with the Japanese space agency JAXA and took a picture of the drifting tools by accident as he was photographing Mount Fuji as he passed over his native nation. “In the most improbable of events, Satoshi was actually… taking photos of Mount Fuji and also captured a nice photo of a lost item, the nice crew lock bag from yesterday,” Moghbeli told mission control on Nov 2. “It wanted to see Mount Fuji, I guess.” Loral O'Hara (centre) and Jasmin Moghbeli (lower right) tethered to the International Space Station during a spacewalk - NASA Johnson/SWNS The Nasa headquarters seemed to take the loss of equipment in good spirits, joking that they should have put an AirTag, a tracking device developed by Apple, in the bag so the crew could retrieve the lost kit the next time they complete an orbit. The astronauts had planned to remove and stow a communications electronics box called the Radio Frequency Group but ran out of time. During the assessment of this task’s feasibility the duo lifted some insulation to get a better view of the job and it is thought one bag was accidentally misplaced during this process. “During the activity, one tool bag was inadvertently lost. Flight controllers spotted the tool bag using external station cameras,” said Mark Garcia, a NASA spokesperson. “The tools were not needed for the remainder of the spacewalk. Mission Control analysed the bag’s trajectory and determined that the risk of recontacting the station is low and that the onboard crew and space station are safe with no action required.” Show comments