Recently, a leak was detected on another Russian spacecraft.
The Russian state concern “Roscosmos” published a photo of the hole that appeared on the Soyuz spacecraft docked at the International Space Station station This hole led to a leak of the ship's coolant.
“In the pictures attached above, there is a violation of the outer skin of the Soyuz MS-22.” The presence of this hole proves that the cause of the incident is external damage,” the agency said.
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It should be noted that “Soyuz” is not the only spacecraft of “Roscosmos” on which an “extraordinary situation” was recorded. Recently, the Progress cargo spacecraft arrived at the ISS, on which a leak was also detected. Now a special commission is dealing with its causes.
Due to new problems, it was decided to postpone the launch of the Soyuz MS-23 ship, which was supposed to take the Russian cosmonauts from the ISS, to March.
< p> As a reminder, the leak on Soyuz was registered on December 14, before the Russian cosmonauts were supposed to go into outer space. The “space walk” was supposed to last six hours and 40 minutes, but it was canceled when the cosmonauts had already put on their spacesuits and started the process of depressurizing the airlock. in Soyuz rose to 50 degrees Celsius. Roskomos denies this, estimating the temperature of the ship at 30 degrees Celsius.
