The Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) has sprung its third coolant leak in under a year, raising new questions about the reliability of the country’s space programme even as officials said crew members were not in danger.
Flakes of frozen coolant spraying into space were seen in an official live feed of the orbital lab provided by Nasa on Monday, and confirmed in radio chatter between US mission control and astronauts.
Space analyst Jonathan McDowell told AFP: “You’ve got three coolant systems leaking – there’s a common thread there. One is whatever, two is a coincidence, three is something systemic,” he said, speculating that a subcontractor company may be at fault.
“It really just emphasises the degrading reliability of Russian space systems. When you add it to the context of their failed moon probe in August, they’re not looking great.”
Sounds like my Volvo…always something
Have they tried K-Seal?
“It really just emphasises the degrading reliability of Russian space systems. When you add it to the context of their failed moon probe in August, they’re not looking great.”
Keep telling yourself that, space analyst, but remember who’s done all of the heavy lifting when the Muslim Outreachers at NASA are hitching rides on Russian rockets and begging Musk to loft their space junk.
And you look sort of small when you take potshots at those who actually plan and execute missions to the moon. How’s that NASA moon mission going, space analyst?
I’m not shilling for Russia, butyou spind like a whiny bitch, space analyst. Who are you shilling for?
^ Nice rant! 🙂
Russia BAD, check. Next up, indict Trump for it, then blame White Supremacy and Global Warming. Recruit some BlackTransLesbianImmigrants to do better but don’t actually require them to produce any results.
Just like any Russian construction since the beginning of time; simple, usually (usually) robust, usually (usually) reliable, but always some little thing breaking.
it’s been in space for 25 years. yea, things are going to break.
I’ve used black pepper in the past to stop a coolant leak. Worked good.
And what, exactly, are we doing on this “space station” that is so all-fired important? How to grow beans in zero gravity? Don’t we grow beans on Earth, where we have gravity? Newsflash – for all the comic books that may say otherwise, we ain’t going to use this collection of orbiting space junk to “springboard into the cosmos” aboard some Star Trek-looking space hotel.
Well they could grow potatoes like in The Martian, but then the Ruskies would make vodka and wind up making even worse mistakes!
Hey a tub of Flexseal and Flextape will fix her right up…
Kinda like when only one of the Siamese twins dies.