They also find the station is orbiting too low and will fall to the Earth if aid does not arrive within 24 hours.
Communications are restored, allowing the station to stabilize.
First of all they just completely changed the reason the station was unstable, but neither reason really makes any sense.
If it were about supplies (presumably thruster fuel) why was the space station allowed to get to the point where it would be that close to falling to earth and not have any fuel to compensate? In reality they adjust monthly with small thrusts and even if they stopped doing that it would probably take a long time to fall to Earth.
If it were about communications, on top of the above problem of letting it get that close, why would they make that adjustment controlled from the ground instead of on board?
First of all they just completely changed the reason the station was unstable, but neither reason really makes any sense.
If it were about supplies (presumably thruster fuel) why was the space station allowed to get to the point where it would be that close to falling to earth and not have any fuel to compensate? In reality they adjust monthly with small thrusts and even if they stopped doing that it would probably take a long time to fall to Earth.
If it were about communications, on top of the above problem of letting it get that close, why would they make that adjustment controlled from the ground instead of on board?
All hard SF writers need to be forced to play at least 2000 hours of KSP