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Leaky Russian spacecraft lands on Earth from space station: Report

By IANS | Updated: March 28, 2023 20:25 IST

Moscow, March 28 An unmanned Russian spacecraft, which suffered a major coolant leak in December last year, has ...

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Moscow, March 28 An unmanned Russian spacecraft, which suffered a major coolant leak in December last year, has successfully landed on Earth from the International Space Station (ISS), Roscosmos, the Russian space agency said on Tuesday.

"Its de-orbiting and descent to Earth went smoothly!" Roscosmos wrote on Telegram.

The leaky Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft cast off from its docking port on the Russian-built Rassvet module of the ISS without any astronauts aboard at 5:57 a.m. EDT (3:27 p.m. IST).

The agency also noted that the Soyuz delivered "218 kg of cargo from the ISS, including the results of scientific experiments and station equipment for analysis or reuse".

The Soyuz MS-22 manned spacecraft had blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 21, 2022, taking Sergei Prokopyev, Dmitry Petelin and a NASA astronaut to the ISS for a six-month stay in orbit.

In December last year, the crew aboard the ISS found damage to the outer skin of the instrument-assembly compartment of Soyuz MS-22.

They reported that the warning device of the spaceship's diagnostic system went off, indicating a pressure drop in the cooling system, Xinhua news agency reported, citing a statement by Roscosmos.

Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina, using a camera on a manipulator mounted on the Nauka multifunctional laboratory module, photographed and filmed the outer surface of the Soyuz MS-22 and transmitted the data back to Earth for study.

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