Cause of puncture remains unclear as officials say damage continues to be assessed
Russia is considering a “rescue” plan to send an empty spacecraft to the International Space Station to bring home three stranded crew members after their Soyuz crew capsuleon Thursday they were continuing to investigate how the coolant line of the capsule’s external radiator sustained a tiny puncture last week, just as two cosmonauts were preparing for a routine spacewalk.showing white particles resembling snowflakes streaming out of the rear.
If a thermal analysis – which assesses how hot it will get inside the cabin – concludes MS-22 is unfit for crewed flight, then a scheduled launch of another Soyuz capsule in mid-March from Baikonur Cosmodrome could be moved up and it would launch un-crewed, Krikalev said. Nasa astronaut Frank Rubio, right, with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin before heading to the ISS earlier this year.MS-22 flew Russian cosmonauts Dmitry Petelin and Sergey Prokopyev, as well as Nasa astronaut Frank Rubio, to the ISS in September.
The cause of the damage still remained unclear, said Montalbano. But it did not appear as though the Geminid meteor shower – an annual phenomenon – was to blame, since the hull was penetrated from a different direction.
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