ISS leak

The crew of the International Space Station on Sunday was inspecting an attached Russian space capsule that may have been damaged by a micrometeorite. The crew of the International Space Station on Sunday was inspecting an attached Russian space capsule that may have been damaged by a micrometeorite, while ground controllers considered whether to send up a replacement spaceship to ferry some of them home. Russia's space corporation, Roscosmos, said the crew was using a camera on a Canadian-built robotic arm to…

A coolant leak aboard a Russian Soyuz space capsule docked to the International Space Station could have been caused by a tiny meteoroid strike. A coolant leak lasting for at least three hours Wednesday night aboard a Russian Soyuz space capsule docked to the International Space Station could have been caused by a tiny meteoroid strike, a senior Russian space official said Thursday. NASA and Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, said no astronauts were endangered by the leak, which forced mission control officers in…

Russian and NASA engineers were assessing a coolant leak on Thursday from a Soyuz crew capsule docked with the International Space Station (ISS) that may have been caused by a micrometeorite strike. Russian and NASA engineers were assessing a coolant leak on Thursday from a Soyuz crew capsule docked with the International Space Station (ISS) that may have been caused by a micrometeorite strike. Dramatic NASA TV images showed white particles resembling snowflakes streaming out of the rear of the vessel for hours.…

According to a Russian space official, the coolant leak on the Soyuz spacecraft, attached to the International Space Station might have been caused by a micrometeorite. On Wednesday, December 14, NASA reported a “fairly significant” coolant leak on the Soyuz spacecraft which is attached to the International Space Station (ISS). The leak also caused immediate abandonment of the spacewalk scheduled for two Russian astronauts. The sudden coolant leakage was a highly unusual occurrence that perplexed many astronomers. But…