The Soyuz MS-22 team ship is visualized docked to the Rassvet module. In the background, the Prichal docking module is connected to the Nauka multipurpose lab module. Credit: NASA
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” data-gt-translate-attributes=” L_SQUARE_B.R_SQUARE_B. “> NASA and Roscosmos are changing the International Space Station(ISS)flight strategy after finishing an examination into a coolant leakage on the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked to the station.
NASA hosted a joint media instruction on Wednesday, January 11, about the Roscosmos-led examination to upgrade the general public on the Soyuz status and the forward technique.
As a part of the work, Roscosmos engineers figured out the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft is not practical for a typical team return, however is readily available for team return in an emergency situation aboard the spaceport station. The Soyuz MS-22 will be changed by the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft that will release to the spaceport station without a team on Monday, February 20. NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin will go back to Earth in the replacement Soyuz after investing a number of extra months on the station.
NASA has actually been dealing with Roscosmos throughout the examination and will continue to deal with its Commercial Crew Program and Canadian, Japanese, and European partners to improve approaching flight dates over the next a number of weeks. NASA likewise continues its conversations with SpaceX concerning the possibility of utilizing the Crew-5 spacecraft to return extra team in case of a station emergency situation prior to the arrival of Soyuz MS-23.
International Space Station Configuration on January 9, 2023. 5 spaceships are parked at the spaceport station consisting of the Cygnus area truck, the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance, and Russia’s Soyuz MS-22 team ship and the Progress 81 and 82 resupply ships. Credit: NASA
NASA and SpaceX are prepared to introduce the Crew-6 objective quickly after Soyuz MS-23, integrating the manifest modifications formerly discussed. NASA still intends on having a direct handover in between the Crew-5 and Crew-6 objectives.
On December 14, 2022, ground groups observed substantial dripping of external coolant from the aft part of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked to the Rassvet module on the spaceport station. The Soyuz spacecraft brought Prokopyev, Petelin, and Rubio into area after introducing from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 21.
Spacesuits, eye scans, and freight transfers were the dominant activities aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday. The 7 Expedition 68 team members likewise had time for area gardening and clinical hardware upkeep.
NASA astronauts Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada, and Frank Rubio signed up with each other cleansing cooling loops, examining water, and setting up batteries inside a set of Extravehicular Mobility Units (EMUs), likewise referred to as spacesuits, throughout the day. Mann later on signed up with Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (EST
data-gt-translate-attributes =”[]> EST the other day, January 11, 2023. The uncrewed Dragon returned about 4,400 pounds of laboratory hardware and clinical freight for retrieval and analysis by engineers and scientists in the world.
