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posted by martyb on Saturday September 05 2020, @10:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-make-more dept.

Source of International Space Station leak still not found, NASA says - Business Insider:

Officials first noticed a leak last September, but they didn't do anything about it for nearly a year, since the leak wasn't major. Plus, station operations like space walks and crew exchanges kept crew members too busy to collect enough data about the issue.

Recently, however, technicians detected an increase to the already elevated leak rate. So NASA announced on August 20 that the three men aboard the station — NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner — would begin a hunt for the source.

That search is "taking longer than expected," NASA spokesman Daniel Huot told Business Insider last week.

Indeed, Huot said on Tuesday that technical teams were still reviewing the data collected by the crew. They've now ruled out most of the station's modules, Huot added, and should complete their review "in the coming days."

If specialists still can't pinpoint the leak after that, he said, they'll need a new action plan.

[...] In the event of an emergency on the space station, the crew members could return to Earth via the Soyuz MS-16 spaceship that's docked there. In a less extreme scenario, the crew could also cut off the leaking module and isolate it.


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Russia’s space program just threw a NASA astronaut under the bus:

Russia's state-owned news service, TASS, has published an extraordinarily defamatory article about NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor. The publication claims that Auñón-Chancellor had an emotional breakdown in space, then damaged a Russian spacecraft in order to return early. This, of course, is a complete fabrication.

The context for the article is the recent, near-disastrous docking of the Russian Nauka science module with the International Space Station. The TASS article attempts to rebut criticism in US publications (including Ars Technica) that covered the incident and raised questions about the future of the Roscosmos-NASA partnership in space.

One of a dozen rebuttals in the TASS article concerns a 2018 incident—a 2 mm breach in the orbital module of the Soyuz MS-09 vehicle docked with the International Space Station. Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, and NASA's Auñón-Chancellor had flown to the station inside this Soyuz in June. The leak was discovered in late August.

Previously:
(2020-09-05) Source of International Space Station Leak Still Not Found, NASA Says
(2018-12-13) Cosmonauts Cut Into Soyuz Docked at the ISS During Nearly 8-Hour Spacewalk
(2018-11-03) Roscosmos Completes Investigation into October Soyuz Failure, Finds Assembly Issue
(2018-10-03) Controversy Over ISS Leak Continues, Spacewalk Planned for November
(2018-09-14) NASA and Roscosmos Release Joint Statement on ISS Leak Amid Rumors
(2018-09-06) Russian Space Chief Vows to Find "Full Name" of Technician Who Caused ISS Leak


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @01:08PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @01:08PM (#1046742)

    Option1)Fill a big pan with water dip it under the water and look for air bubbles.
    Option2)Hold massive pot party , fly police officer in tight orbit around station.

    • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday September 05 2020, @03:53PM

      by fustakrakich (6150) on Saturday September 05 2020, @03:53PM (#1046802) Journal

      Go outside, light a torch, and look for a draft blowing out of the wessel

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @06:39PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @06:39PM (#1046899)

      similar to what i was thinking. release some fluorescent powder. fly tethered drone around space station with blacklight (disco ball optional).

      • (Score: 2) by driverless on Monday September 07 2020, @03:02AM

        by driverless (4770) on Monday September 07 2020, @03:02AM (#1047398)

        I think they need to create a leaks inquiry. First the Pentagon constantly leaks, then Congress leaks to the media all over the place, and now even the ISS is leaking.

        PS: I got this information from an anonymous source who leaked it to me.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by ChrisMaple on Sunday September 06 2020, @12:44AM

      by ChrisMaple (6964) on Sunday September 06 2020, @12:44AM (#1047045)

      They just need to open a few cans of "flat tire fix" available at any auto supply store.

    • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Sunday September 06 2020, @06:06AM

      by mhajicek (51) on Sunday September 06 2020, @06:06AM (#1047116)

      Cover the station in soapy water.

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    • (Score: 2) by istartedi on Sunday September 06 2020, @07:34AM

      by istartedi (123) on Sunday September 06 2020, @07:34AM (#1047138) Journal

      I'm a space cowboy. Bet you weren't ready for that.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @03:33PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @03:33PM (#1046785)

    i can't wait for those douchbags who want t go to Mars to actually go to Mars. There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza dear Liza.

    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday September 05 2020, @05:15PM (1 child)

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Saturday September 05 2020, @05:15PM (#1046841) Homepage
      Are you stealing my comments from IRC? The ISS is a short tramride away, Mars is a Phileas Fogg adventure in comparison.
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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @07:07PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2020, @07:07PM (#1046914)

        No, fuck you.

        Maybe one day they'll mine platinum on the moon and use bubble fusion-powered welding robots with Smart AI(tm) to detect the leaks before they happen.

  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by fakefuck39 on Sunday September 06 2020, @03:00AM

    by fakefuck39 (6620) on Sunday September 06 2020, @03:00AM (#1047078)

    The source of the NSA leak was Eduard Snowden - it was determined a long time ago and all over the news. I don't know who this "Huot" is, but he should read the fucking news, like 10 years ago.

  • (Score: 2) by Spamalope on Sunday September 06 2020, @09:54PM

    by Spamalope (5233) on Sunday September 06 2020, @09:54PM (#1047296) Homepage

    I wonder if they've got a leak triggered by people moving withing the module so it stops when the offending module is isolated. Or they have two so the source isn't clear. Or both...

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