NASA on Wednesday shut off one of the two external cooling loops on the International Space Station and has been struggling to fix it since. The problem appears to be in the flow valve within a pump module. There has been speculation that the situation could be more serious than NASA has acknowledged. Some noncritical systems in various nodes and laboratories have been powered down, and mission managers have put off a decision on whether to proceed with the Dec. 18 launch of the Orbital Sciences' Cygnus commercial cargo craft.NASA May Schedule Spacewalks to Fix ISS Cooling Loop
NASA on Wednesday shut off one of the two external cooling loops on the International Space Station and has been struggling to fix it since. The problem appears to be in the flow valve within a pump module. There has been speculation that the situation could be more serious than NASA has acknowledged. Some noncritical systems in various nodes and laboratories have been powered down, and mission managers have put off a decision on whether to proceed with the Dec. 18 launch of the Orbital Sciences' Cygnus commercial cargo craft.
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