Soyuz spacecraft docked to International Space Station springs 'fairly significant' coolant leak - CNN

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A planned abstraction locomotion by the Russian abstraction bureau Roscosmos has been called disconnected pursuing the find of a coolant leak coming from the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, which is presently docked to the International Space Station.

NASA’s Rob Navias, speaking connected the NASA TV broadcast, called it a “fairly significant” leak. Live images during the broadcast showed liquid spewing retired from the Soyuz. Navias said the leak was archetypal observed astir 7:45p ET.

The Soyuz spacecraft is docked to the Russian conception of the ISS.

Navias said the origin of the coolant leak is “unknown and the effect astatine this constituent unknown, arsenic Russian managers proceed to look implicit the information and consult with some NASA managers and engineers.”

He said the astronauts wrong the abstraction presumption were “never successful immoderate danger.”

“No decisions person been made regarding the integrity of the Soyuz MS-22 oregon what the adjacent people of enactment volition be,” helium added arsenic helium wrapped up NASA-TV sum of the canceled spacewalk.

The Soyuz MS-22 ferried NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and 2 Russian cosmonauts to the ISS connected September 21 and is scheduled to bring them backmost to Earth successful precocious March.