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A deliberate spacewalk by the Russian house company Roscosmos has been referred to as off following the invention of a coolant leak coming from the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, which is presently docked to the International Space Station.
NASA’s Rob Navias, talking on the NASA TV broadcast, referred to as it a “pretty vital” leak. Live pictures in the course of the broadcast confirmed liquid spewing out from the Soyuz. Navias stated the leak was first noticed round 7:45 p.m. ET Wednesday.
The Soyuz spacecraft is docked to the Russian phase of the house station.
The crew is protected, and all techniques of the house station and the ship are working usually, in line with Roscosmos, in an announcement in Russian launched Thursday morning on Twitter. (CNN translated the assertion.)
“The crew reported that the warning system of the ship’s diagnostic system went off, indicating a stress drop within the cooling system,” in line with Roscosmos. “A visible inspection confirmed the leak, after which it was determined to interrupt the deliberate extravehicular actions by the crew members of the ISS Russian Segment Sergey Prokopiev and Dmitry Petelin.”
Navias stated the reason for the coolant leak is “unknown and the impact at this level unknown as Russian managers proceed to look over the information and seek the advice of with each NASA managers and engineers” and out of doors consultants. He stated the astronauts contained in the house station had been “by no means in any hazard.”
Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina, utilizing the digicam on Russia’s Nauka module on the house station, “photographed and filmed the outer floor of the ship,” in line with Roscosmos. “The information was transmitted to Earth, and the specialists have already begun to review the photographs.”
“No selections have been made relating to the integrity of the Soyuz MS-22 or what the subsequent plan of action will probably be,” Navias added, wrapping up NASA-TV protection of the canceled spacewalk.
Roscosmos added that the state of affairs will probably be analyzed earlier than a call is made about what comes subsequent.
NASA took an identical tone in a Thursday statement: “NASA and Roscosmos will proceed to work collectively to find out the subsequent plan of action following the continuing evaluation.”
The Soyuz MS-22 ferried NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and two Russian cosmonauts to the house station on September 21 and is scheduled to deliver them again to Earth in late March.
