A recently discovered leak on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft has left the capsule without any coolant in its external loop.
NASA officials spotted a leak
on one of the spacecraft connected to the International Space Station. The Soyuz leak, which was discovered during a routine livestream on NASA’s YouTube channel, led to the cancellation of two different spacewalks as officials worked to figure out what had caused the leak., Russia says that the leak is associated with a small impact from a piece of debris that appears to have cut a hole in the eternal coolant loop on the Soyuz.
With the coolant in the Soyuz’s external loop leaking out, the spacecraft wouldn’t be able to distribute heat from inside the capsule evenly. This could damage the various electronic parts inside, which contain computers for guiding the craft back down to Earth safely and without issue. Another possible solution would be to send the next Soyuz spacecraft up early to retrieve the astronauts.
How that would play out regarding getting the old Soyuz spacecraft down is unclear. However, we do know that the Soyuz leak isn’t causing any big threats to the crew aboard the ISS at the moment. It is certainly disheartening to see issues like this popping up. However, the
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