Russia says stranded astronauts to return from ISS in September

 A view reveals exterior harm believed to have prompted a lack of stress within the cooling system of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked to the Worldwide House Station (ISS), on this picture launched February 13, 2023. Roscosmos/Handout through REUTERS

Russia stated on Tuesday that three astronauts left stranded on the Worldwide House Station (ISS) by a leak on their return capsule final 12 months would land again on Earth in a Soyuz MS-23 substitute capsule in September.

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin and U.S. astronaut Francisco Rubio, who had been resulting from finish their mission in March, have been left caught in house after the cooling system of their Soyuz MS-22 capsule began leaking two months in the past.

“(Their return flight) is now scheduled to happen on Soyuz MS-23 in September 2023,” Russian house company Roscosmos stated.

The Soyuz MS-23 substitute capsule will launch on Feb. 24 and can dock with the ISS on Feb. 26, it stated. The broken MS-22 spacecraft is deliberate to land with no crew in March.

Each NASA and Roscosmos imagine final 12 months’s leak on the MS-22 spacecraft was attributable to a micrometeoroid – a tiny particle of house rock hitting the capsule at excessive velocity.

An exterior affect can be believed to have prompted a separate leak earlier this month on the cooling system of the Progress MS-21 cargo ship, which officers deorbited final week.

Each leaks have prompted complications for Roscosmos and NASA, which have needed to rearrange their schedules and postpone deliberate house walks consequently.

“House missions at all times carry an enormous threat of life-threatening emergencies for astronauts,” Roscosmos stated. “Micrometeoroid impacts on a spacecraft or orbital station have occurred earlier than, however not like with the Soyuz MS-22, they’ve by no means had such critical penalties.”

“No nation on the planet has a surveillance system able to monitoring micrometeoroids of this measurement – about 1 millimeter.”

It stated overhauling the Soyuz cooling system can be expensive and add weight to the capsule, however that it might take previous incidents under consideration when creating new spacecraft.

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