The International Space Station ( ISS ) is present its years . After decennium orbiting our satellite , problem have start to bulge up with regularity . Among them , there are leak , cracks , and even problem with theoxygen supplying . A elderly Russian engineer now reports that cracks have appeared on the Zarya module of the ISS , which is used for storage as well as the ongoing problems to theZvezda module , which houses the cosmonauts .
Russia ’s state - ownedRIA Newssat with Vladimir Solovyov , chief engineer of Moscow - base company Energia and the prime contractile organ for Russia ’s human spaceflight programme , talking about the current conditions of the Russian section of the ISS and the potentiality of a completely Russian space station in the near future tense .
Among the many inquiry , the interviewer asked about the ongoing egress with the leaks from the Zvezda faculty . The billet is not dramatic – if left alone , the station would fall back about half a kilogram of air per day , which is manageable but not idealistic . cosmonaut have apply sealant twice already but the leaks continue , so the transition sleeping accommodation to the module is kept closed in . That said , the team is compulsive to encounter all the leak and close them .
The causa of the crack is changeable , but they could be due to the welding of the modules as well as vibe that the quad place has experienced over time . And the latter could be dead on target also for the Zarya module , which has only got superficial shot currently .
" Superficial fissures have been found in some places on the Zarya mental faculty , " Solovyov say , as translated byReuters . " This is bad and indicate that the fissures will set out to spread out over time . "
The interview also touched on the recentmishap with the Nauka faculty , the a la mode one to be launched and attach to the ISS . Hours after it had docked , its green thrusters turned themselves on , push the intact quad station out of its expected range .
Solovyov thinks that observe the ISS as it is past 2025 is bad , and he stressed that it ’s why Russia is think of build its own blank space station . That said , Russia had previously said they ’d be open to continue the international partnership past 2024 .
Stakeholders are presently deciding what the future will look like for the ISS beyond that date , with many focalize on a lunar blank space station , dubbed theLunar Gateway , as a new external frontier settlement in space .
[ h / t : RIA News ]
