Computers aboard the international space station are up and running once again, thanks to the efforts of flight controllers over the weekend, so the Space Shuttle Atlantis received the green light from mission managers to undock from the space station on Tuesday morning. Two of three lanes on each of the two problematic computers are now operating normally, while the third on each is operational but in standby mode. The Mission Control Center in Moscow has restarted all Russian systems except the Elektron oxygen generation system, which has been powered but not yet started.
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ISS Computers Back Online, Atlantis Set to Return
Posted by: Katherine Noyes June 18, 2007 03:13 PMComputers aboard the international space station are up and running once again, thanks to the efforts of flight controllers over the weekend, so the Space Shuttle Atlantis received the green light from mission managers to undock from the space station on Tuesday morning. Two of three lanes on each of the two problematic computers are now operating normally, while the third on each is operational but in standby mode. The Mission Control Center in Moscow has restarted all Russian systems except the Elektron oxygen generation system, which has been powered but not yet started.