For the third time in a year, coolant is leaking from a Russian module aboard the International Space Station
Space station astronauts were "never in any danger" following a coolant leak Monday on a Russian module, NASA officials have said.
It is unclear whether the leak will require a spacewalk by Roscosmos cosmonauts for repairs to the science module, or whether the situation will delay an already planned spacewalk by NASA astronauts expected to take place on Oct. 12. The leaky backup radiator was originally for a different Russian module aboard the space station, called Rassvet, and was delivered to the ISS via space shuttle mission STS-132 in 2010. A Roscosmos spacewalk in April 2023 transferred the then-functional backup radiator to Nauka.
The Nauka leak is the latest in a string of ISS Russian equipment coolant escapes in recent months. Roscosmos has said the last two incidents were likely due to micrometeroid impacts, although Harvard-Smithsonian space analyst Jonathan McDowell told The Guardian he suspects there is a "systemic" problem.
Roscosmos next examined its options for the spacecraft, then set to carry three astronauts home in early 2023. The Russian agency determined it was best to quickly send up an empty replacement Soyuz, MS-23, and return MS-22 back to Earth for analysis. There have been other incidents with Russian ISS equipment in recent years. Faulty software aboard Nauka when it first docked with the ISS in July 2021, for example, briefly tilted the space station and caused NASA's Mission Control to declare an emergency, although the crew was never in any danger and the situation was swiftly and safely rectified.
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