This file photo of 1993 shows U.S. Vice President Albert Gore visiting Mission Control Center of Russia's Space Agency in Moscow.
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Operation of ISS Computers Partially Restored
Operation of ISS computers that control its orientation and produce oxygen has been partially restored, according to CNN.
Russia’s experts from Mission Control Center have managed to resume connection with some computers of International Space Station (ISS), but reviving the whole system calls for additional effort.
A fire alarm was actuated when Zarya computers were brought to life, but no fire and smoke were noted, Russia’s flight controllers assured.
The computers simultaneously broke down on June 13 in the first massive computer failure witnessed by ISS. Until that day, only some individual computers had failed from time to time.
The exact cause of breakdown hasn’t been determined yet. Today’s leading theory is that the sensitive computers were affected by a bad power feed rather than by software failure.
The power feed hooks up ISS to new solar arrays delivered by Atlantis and connected by the U.S. astronauts to the orbiting outpost shortly before the accident.
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