“Coolant leak aft of Russian Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft”
TASS and Reuters reported on the 15th that the Russian cosmonauts’ mission to travel off the International Space Station (ISS) has been canceled due to technical problems.
According to reports, Russian cosmonauts Sergei Prokofiev and Dmitry Petelin left the Russian ISS module “Poisk” at 5:20 (Moscow time) the same day and planned to do a spacewalk for 6 hours 30 minutes.
Furthermore, the mission was to use a robotic arm to move the heat exchanger from the ISS “Rasvet” module to the Russian multipurpose laboratory module “Nauka”.
However, the plan was canceled after it was revealed that an unknown substance had leaked from the tail of Soyuz MS-22, a Russian spacecraft docked with the ISS prior to the mission.
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said: “The planned trip off the ISS of two Russian cosmonauts has been canceled due to technical problems”.
Reuters reported, citing NASA officials, that the leaked material was believed to be refrigerant.
He also said that the astronauts on the ISS do not appear to be in danger from the accident.
Earlier in September, two Russian cosmonauts, including Prokofiev, arrived at the ISS on a Russian Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan together with American astronaut Frank Rubio of NASA.
At the time, it was the first time an American astronaut had landed in a Russian rocket on the ISS since the February Ukraine crisis.
/yunhap news
