Smoke and stinging odor on the space station

The smoke detector was triggered during automatic charging of batteries, which led to the alarm being triggered. To prevent the crew from being exposed to possible smoke, a filter unit was started to clean the air, explains the Russian space agency Roskosmos.

– All systems work normally, and the air on board meets normal requirements. The crew continues the ordinary training for today’s spacewalk, Roskosmos says Twitter.

The alarm was triggered at night when the crew reported smoke and the smell of scorched plastic that had reached the American part of the station, writes Sputnik News , which refers to conversations mediated by Nasa between the crew and people on the ground on Earth.

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