Moscow, Dec 16 (IANS) Astronauts discovered harm to the outer pores and skin of the instrument-assembly compartment of the Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-22 that’s docked to the International Space Station (ISS).

The crew on Thursday reported that the warning gadget of the spaceship’s diagnostic system went off, indicating a strain drop within the cooling system, Xinhua information company reported, citing a press release by Russia’s state area company Roscosmos.

After a visible inspection confirmed the leak, the deliberate extravehicular actions by crew members of the Russian section of the ISS, Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin, had been canceled, it mentioned.

Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina, utilizing a digicam on a manipulator mounted on the Nauka multifunctional laboratory module, photographed and filmed the outer floor of the Soyuz MS-22 and transmitted the information again to Earth for research.

Currently, all programs of the ISS and the spaceship are working usually and the crew is secure, Roscosmos mentioned, including {that a} choice might be made on additional actions after specialists analyze the state of affairs.

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

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