First Vice President of Roscosmos Andrey Elchaninov said that the damage to the instrument and assembly compartments of the Soyuz MS-22 and Progress MS-21 spacecraft was not caused by space debris. Elchaninov said that interfax.
He also stated that no one knows “exactly what hit”.
“Our version is a meteoroid. It’s definitely not space debris, Yelchaninov said.
The first vice president of Roskosmos pointed out that the ISS rendezvous with space debris was examined separately. Roscosmos collaborates with NASA in this area.
“If there was debris, we would track it down and perform another ISS evasion maneuver,” he added.
Elchaninov said that a special commission carried out a full production and technological inspection of the creation of a thermal control system both on a manned spacecraft and on a truck. According to him, the results of the audit showed that all technologies were observed and are now being observed.
“The results of the commission studies allowed us to conclude that the depressurization of the outer contour of the truck was also caused by an external influence,” said the representative of Roskosmos.
Yelchaninov stated that they also checked the ships preparing to launch.
“No errors were found,” he finished.
It was previously reported that the Progress MS-22 space transport cargo ship was found. taken away From the collision of the International Space Station (ISS) with space debris.