Experts decided to stop work on the ascent to space of cosmonauts Sergei Prokopiev and Dmitry Petelin. It has been reported TASSHe cites Roscosmos and an expert from the Mission Control Center who negotiated with the astronauts.
The government agency said Petelin and Prokopyev’s departure from the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Russian program was “cancelled for technical reasons”.
According to an expert from the Mission Control Center, work was suspended due to depressurization of the heat supply system of the Soyuz spacecraft docked with the ISS.
“We had a pressure drop in the external circuit of the ship’s SOTR (thermal regime maintenance system. – socialbites.ca). Expert in negotiations with cosmonaut Anna Kikina, we are trying to understand the situation, we are trying to remove the additional telemetry and see how critical everything is, the guys are aware of this, ”said the author.
Previously recognizedcosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin were supposed to leave the ISS on November 25 to transfer the radiator-heat exchanger from the Rassvet module to the new Nauka module of the Russian division of the ISS. However, about half an hour before the start of the spacewalk, Roscosmos reported that the work was halted due to a problem with one of the spacesuits.