Russia's space agency is preparing to launch a mission on Friday to provide a ride for two cosmonauts and one U.S. astronaut who are on the International Space Station without a designated ship to get home.
The Soyuz MS-22 rocket is launched to the International Space Station with Expedition 68 astronaut Frank Rubio of NASA, and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of Roscosmos onboard, on Sept. 21, 2022, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.The Soyuz MS-22 rocket is launched to the International Space Station with Expedition 68 astronaut Frank Rubio of NASA, and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin of Roscosmos onboard, on Sept.
The spacecraft that brought the three crew members to the ISS in the fall later experienced a leak in its radiator cooling loop, and officials from both countries had to develop a new plan to get the trio back to Earth.A Russian spacecraft suffered a coolant leak in Decemberat the International Space Station in September aboard the Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-22, which remained docked at the space station.was discovered on the MS-22, NASA said.to Earth.
A Roscosmos official suggested the leak probably occurred when a small meteoroid collided with the ship's radiator,Russian and U.S. space officials began working on an alternate scheme to return the three crew members to Earth.The new plan was to launch an uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to the ISS on Feb. 19, giving the astronaut and two cosmonauts a functional vessel to fly home in.
But that plan was soon paused after another coolant leak was discovered in a separate vessel on the ISS.suffered an unexplained depressurizationThe leak on Progress 82 was not connected to the planned rescue mission, but it prompted engineers at the Russian Mission Control Center near Moscow to investigate why the cargo vessel lost coolant andThe Soyuz MS-23 is now scheduled to launch on Friday.
Roscosmos announced on Monday that a state commission had issued a permit approving the launch of the replacement ship, the Russian state news agency TASSThe spacecraft will carry roughly 948 pounds of cargo to the space station, including food and equipment for experiments. Rubio, Prokopyev and Petelin will then fly home in the MS-23 in several months.
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