From: "Rich Gauszka" 

even the electrical interference of activating compressors on the station
would shut down the Russian built computers? and hardly any coverage in
Russia?

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3281714&page=1
A source inside the Russian space agency has told ABC News that there could
be a "fatal flaw" with the station's main computer.

After working for a couple of days, the Russians still have no idea what
the problem is, and they are pointing the finger at the Americans. They say
that setting up the solar array sent electromagnetic interference into the
computer, shutting it down.

According to NASA, the computers aboard the Space Station appear to be
sensitive to the noise created by the electrical interference from the
solar arrays.

"They did find that these were sensitive to this power noise and in
fact, a couple of instances on the ground where activiating compressors
around the test stands would cause them to have upsets and shut themselves
down," Mike Suffredini, NASA Space Station Program Manager, told ABC
News.

The story is getting almost no coverage in the Russian media.

On the positive side, the Russian space agency says that the station could
fly for a few months without correcting its flight, meaning that even if
the astronauts were forced to leave, there may be more time to fix the
computer problems down the road. Russian astronauts wake up at 7 a.m. EDT
to begin working again.

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