Russians aim for Dec for fixing ISS leak permanently
The Russians announced yesterday that they plan the full and permanent repair of the small inch-long crack leaking air on ISS to occur in December, after required material is shipped to the station.
According to the official, the crack was the width of a hair and located in a hard-to-reach spot of Zvezda’s shell.
Solovyov did not specify the spacecraft that will deliver the sealing materials to the ISS, but the only one scheduled to fly in December is Cargo Dragon, a reusable freight spaceship of US private company SpaceX. The soonest flight of a Russian cargo spacecraft — Progress MS-16 — has been postponed until December 2021.
They also plan a spacewalk in the next two weeks to inspect the exterior of the Zvezda module where the crack is located.
I have yet to see an image of the crack itself. Why none has been made easily available is somewhat puzzling.
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The Russians announced yesterday that they plan the full and permanent repair of the small inch-long crack leaking air on ISS to occur in December, after required material is shipped to the station.
According to the official, the crack was the width of a hair and located in a hard-to-reach spot of Zvezda’s shell.
Solovyov did not specify the spacecraft that will deliver the sealing materials to the ISS, but the only one scheduled to fly in December is Cargo Dragon, a reusable freight spaceship of US private company SpaceX. The soonest flight of a Russian cargo spacecraft — Progress MS-16 — has been postponed until December 2021.
They also plan a spacewalk in the next two weeks to inspect the exterior of the Zvezda module where the crack is located.
I have yet to see an image of the crack itself. Why none has been made easily available is somewhat puzzling.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I actually hope this was a metallurgy defect. Some small inclusion. Something isolated.
Yes it could happen all over the module if it is but it also means that the other modules are safe.
It also means that stress was taken into account correctly.
And corrosion is not a problem so far.
“The soonest flight of a Russian cargo spacecraft — Progress MS-16 — has been postponed until December 2021.”
Wait – this doesn’t sound right . . .
All the launch schedules I follow still have this flight for Dec. 11 2020.
But if the Russians HAVE delayed it, it is hard to believe they are going to go over a year without a Progress cargo supply mission.
I wonder if Sputnik screwed up this story.
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Ha! pzatchok, you beat me to it.
Flex Seal may be good, but don’t count out Gorilla Tape or T-Rex brand.
Better yet, the Russians should just check out Project Farm’s tests…
https://youtu.be/CJt3KHFLkVc
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