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MOSCOW – The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) who landed Thursday in Kazakhstan brought back a dust filter from the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft, currently docked at the ISS and where, late August, the station team detected an air leak, as part of the investigation of the incident, a source from the space industry told Sputnik Sunday.
On August 30, the ISS crew detected an air leak caused by a microfracture on a wall of the Soyuz MS-09 satellite orbital module, which docked at the ISS on June 8. day. The Russian state space company Roscosmos has created a special commission to investigate this incident. Earlier in October, Dmitry Rogozin, president of Roscosmos, said the commission had concluded that a manufacturing incident was not the cause of the incident.
"Among the cargoes reported by the Soyuz MS-08 probe, point 111 is of most interest, namely the dust filter of the Soyuz MS-09 probe and buffers taken from and around the hole. ci ", said the source.
The source added that the experts would try to find traces of aluminum, which is the composition of the module, and if they found it, it would prove that the hole appeared while the module was already in orbit.
The Russian Central Military District announced later that day that the Soyuz MS-08 had been delivered to Moscow and would be handed over to the Russian company Rocket and Space Energia.
In early September, a source in the space industry told Sputnik that Russian cosmonauts of the ISS had been asked to gather all the evidence that could help shed light on what might have been causing the accident. appearance of this hole.
On November 15, the ISS crew is scheduled for a spacewalk where they will examine the outside hole before the Soyuz MS-09 probe leaves the ISS in December. It will be impossible to examine the hole when returning the spacecraft to Earth, as the orbital module separates from the descent module in which the crew lands and is consumed when it enters the atmosphere.
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