Russian ISS module continues to leak: Russians smear cracks but it doesn't help

To spread: in the orbit of land, part of the international space station continues to lose air. Problems still arise with the Russian part of the ISS. Recently, the crew of the Russian ISS module reported that he may have found and piled the last crack. But further observations showed that the leakage from the station continues, writes Gizmodo.

Roscosmos say that attempts to eliminate leakage could only slow down the speed of air out of the compartment, but it is not possible to eliminate it completely. "The leakage is ongoing. We are going to continue the search, recent repairs have significantly reduced the speed at which the air seeps. For some time we even thought that they found and plosed the last crack, although many years of observations have shown that it was ongoing," the Russian department said. In focus.

Technology has appeared its Telegram channel. Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! For the first time, the air leakage with the ISS was known in September 2019. Then the leak managed to track down to the vestibule that connects the joint knot with the Russian module "Star". After 6 years, the speed of air leakage became twice as high. This forced NASA to increase the risk due to leakage to the highest.

Then NASA and Roscosmos could not agree that it became the root cause of the leak. In June, it seemed that the ISS situation had improved a little. But later NASA launched Axiom 4 private mission to the ISS, as it received a new pressure signal in the Russian Zvezda module. NASA did not reject that changes in the pressure in the cabin could also be a sign that the leakage was stopped. But these hopes were in vain, although Roscosmos still hope to troubleshoot in their module.