A new crack has been discovered at the International Space Station (ISS). This was announced on the air of the Russia-24 TV channel by Vladimir Solovyov, the flight director of the Russian segment of the ISS, reports TASS.
“So far we have found one, and there is another place under suspicion where there is some kind of leakage,” Soloviev noted. According to the flight director of the Russian segment of the ISS, the cosmonauts are awaiting the arrival of a powerful microscope on the cargo ship, with the help of which possible cracks will be investigated.
On January 21, the Russia-24 TV channel reported that one of the SKV-2 air conditioning systems in the Russian Zvezda module was disconnected on the ISS. Nothing threatens the cosmonauts, since the station has a backup system SKV-1.
On January 16, the director of the ISS department at NASA headquarters, Robin Gatens, said that the search for the second air leak in the Russian Zvezda module had been stopped until February before the arrival of the next Progress spacecraft. The hole in the ISS hull was formed at the end of December. An air leak in the Russian module at the station was recorded in September.
