Xinhua: Russia to check spacecraft to find ISS air leak reason

Published Sept. 4, 2018 at 9:18 pm

This handout picture obtained from the European Space Agency (ESA) on September 4, 2018 shows a view taken by German astronaut and geophysicist Alexander Gerst, showing the River Seine making is passage through drought affected areas across Paris and the Parisian Region as seen from the International Space Station on August 6, 2018.

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Russia’s Energia Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) will check all the Soyuz and Progress spacecraft to establish a reason for air leak on the International Space Station (ISS), Russian media reported September 4.

RIA Novosti news agency quoted a source in the space industry as saying that the inspection of the spacecraft based in Korolyov in the Moscow region will start in the next few days. The checking of those located at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan will begin next week.