This is the new Russian space station element just launched. It had a history of delays. The last 2 were from metal filings in it's fuel tanks. I suspect the metal bits made themselves known again. From this link we see:Initially, Nauka was built as a backup for FGB Zarya, the first module of the ISS. Construction started in 1995, with a design based on the hull of the Soviet cargo ship TKS, itself a part of the Almaz military program which included orbital stations, a supply cargo ship, and crewed ships with reusable descent modules.
Nauka is in fact the last surviving, active part of the Almaz program, excluding the hulls and ships which were sold to the Excalibur-Almaz company and to museums for exhibition.
Whoops, the dramatic story of MLM Nauka already continues to develop just 1 orbit into space - one docking antenna & (not used yet) nadir docking port target unable to be confirmed deployed + IR horizon sensors & multiple RCS thrusters reporting errors….https://t.co/y0Lu07McDHpic.twitter.com/WAkzvwemm8
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
