Canadarm2 to help inspect coolant leak in Russia’s Soyuz capsule at ISS | 24CA News
A 17-metre-long Canadian-made robotic arm on the International Space Station will examine a docked Soyuz spacecraft after a leak was seen simply earlier than a spacewalk final week, Russia’s state area company stated on Sunday.
After the spacewalk was referred to as off on Thursday, Roscosmos stated there had been injury to the outer pores and skin of an instrument meeting compartment of the Soyuz MS-22 capsule. It stated there was a coolant leak.
Roscosmos stated cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin and Anna Kikina have been having fun with a day of relaxation on the Space Station and deliberate to observe the ultimate of the World Cup.
“The Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft will be inspected with cameras of the SSRMS, the Space Station Remote Manipulator System,” Roskosmos stated in an announcement. “The results will be transmitted to Earth on Monday.”
Commonly often called Canadarm2, the SSRMS performs upkeep, strikes provides and grapples arriving spacecraft.
“The temperature in the Soyuz MS-22 manned spacecraft was reduced due to the actions of specialists from the Mission Control Centre near Moscow, remaining within the specified limits,” it stated.
Preparations are underway for the launch of the Soyuz MS-23 from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, and Russia’s area company stated that launch may very well be accelerated if wanted.
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield reacts to news of the unexplained leak from the docked Soyuz spacecraft, which led to the cancellation of a routine Russian ISS spacewalk.
