A GoPro camera captured an air leak in the compartment of the Russian Zvezda module on the International Space Station (ISS). This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the negotiations of the station's crew with the Earth, which were broadcast by NASA.
A specialist from the Moscow Region Mission Control Center told the crew that the camera would again be placed in the compartment of the Russian module for three days.
The camera was closed in the compartment in order to take readings of the manovacuum meter. This made it possible to understand how quickly the pressure drops. On the evening of October 2, cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Wagner opened the hatches and took out the camera. They looked at the pictures and reported that in half a day, the pressure in the compartment dropped from 733 to 643 millimeters of mercury.
The leak at the Zvezda module, according to Roscosmos, provided a total atmospheric pressure drop on the ISS at the level of 1 millimeter of mercury in 8 hours.
As Business Insider wrote at the end of September, the leakage rate increased to 1.4 kilograms per day, which required re-isolation of the crew.
At the end of August 2018, Dmitry Rogozin, General Director of Roscosmos, spoke about an air leak from the Russian manned spacecraft Soyuz docked to the ISS, the source of which was a drilled hole with a diameter of 1.5 millimeters. The manager stressed that the hole in question had been sealed with Kapton tape.
