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posted by martyb on Tuesday October 29, @04:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the Yikes! dept.

https://www.uniladtech.com/science/space/nasa-astronauts-iss-brace-emergency-evacuation-093405-20241029

Astronauts on the ISS brace for emergency evacuation after NASA finds 50 'areas of concern'

NASA has raised the threat level to the highest rating

NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station are preparing for a possible evacuation as they face a worsening air leak problem.

The US space agency and its Russian counterpart, Roscomos, are tracking 50 'areas of concern' related to a growing leak aboard the station.

In a recent report from NASA's Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the cracks in a Russian service module have reached a 'top safety risk,' marking it a five-out-of-five threat level.

This story is the only one I can find. Can someone please corroborate this?

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Freeman on Tuesday October 29, @05:05PM (2 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Tuesday October 29, @05:05PM (#1379292) Journal

    Article on Arstechnica from July 2024 titled "As leaks on the space station worsen, there’s no clear plan to deal with them" https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/on-the-space-station-band-aid-fixes-for-systemic-problems/ [arstechnica.com]

    NASA and the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, still have not solved a long-running and worsening problem with leaks on the International Space Station.

    The microscopic structural cracks are located inside the small PrK module on the Russian segment of the space station, which lies between a Progress spacecraft airlock and the Zvezda module.
    [...]
    However, there appears to be rising concern in the ISS program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The space agency often uses a 5x5 "risk matrix" to classify the likelihood and consequence of risks to spaceflight activities, and the Russian leaks are now classified as a "5" both in terms of high likelihood and high consequence. Their potential for "catastrophic failure" is discussed in meetings.
    [...]
    One source familiar with NASA's efforts to address the leaks confirmed to Ars that the internal concerns about the issue are serious. "We heard that basically the program office had a runaway fire on their hands and were working to solve it," this person said. "Joel and Dana are keeping a lid on this."
    [...]
    "They have repaired multiple leak locations, but additional leak locations remain," the NASA spokesperson said. "Roscosmos has yet to identify the cracks’ root cause, making it challenging to analyze or predict future crack formation and growth."
    [...]
    It remains to be seen whether cracks—structural, diplomatic, or otherwise—will rupture this effort prior to the station's anticipated retirement date of 2030.

    The article from July hits all of the "hot news" I've noticed on the recent uncorroborated "Evacuation Notice" news articles.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Tork on Tuesday October 29, @05:45PM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 29, @05:45PM (#1379299)
    You have me wondering now if an AI 'journalist' has gone rogue and 'refreshed' an old story into a new one. I think something similar to this happened a few days ago for me, I was trying to find out if Israel had counter-attacked Iran and for a moment I thought they had but it was really a re-worded re-print of that attack they did over the summer.

    Making old news new again... is that a new journalism business model?
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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday October 29, @06:17PM

    by Freeman (732) on Tuesday October 29, @06:17PM (#1379305) Journal

    My bad, it's from June 2024, not July 2024. For the sake of an edit button.

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