A Russian science lab at the International Space Station [File]
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Coolant leaked from a backup line at the International Space Station, Russian officers stated Monday, including that there was no danger to the crew or the outpost.
Russian space company Roscosmos stated that coolant leaked from an exterior backup radiator for Russia’s new science lab. The lab’s most important thermal management system was working usually, the company emphasised.
“The crew and the station aren’t in any danger,” Roscosmos stated.
NASA confirmed that there is no such thing as a risk to the station’s crew of seven and that operations are persevering with as traditional.
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Roscosmos stated engineers had been investigating the reason for the leak. The incident follows latest coolant leaks from Russian spacecraft parked at the station. Those leaks had been blamed on tiny meteoroids.
The lab — named Nauku, which suggests science — arrived at the space station in July 2021.
Last December, coolant leaked from a Soyuz crew capsule docked to the station, and one other comparable leak from a Progress provide ship was found in February. A Russian investigation concluded that these leaks doubtless resulted from hits by tiny meteoroids, not manufacturing flaws.
The Soyuz leak resulted in an prolonged keep for NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and his two Russian crewmates, Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, who spent 371 days in orbit as a substitute of six months. A alternative capsule was despatched to the station for his or her trip house.
The space station, which has served as an emblem of post-Cold War worldwide cooperation, is now one of many final remaining areas of cooperation between Russia and the West amid the tensions over Moscow’s navy motion in Ukraine. NASA and its companions hope to proceed working the orbiting outpost till 2030.
Current residents are: NASA’s astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara, the European Space Agency’s Andreas Mogensen, Russian cosmonauts Konstantin Borisov, Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa.
