Something strange has happened to the Russian spaceship in orbit: what is known

Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! The Russian Space Space, called "Progress MS-29", stated from the ISS on November 23, but Russian astronauts reported a strange smell that came out of the ship that delayed its unloading. As focus wrote, the unmanned ship delivered 3 tons of supplies and equipment to the ISS, but astronauts closed the hatch of the ship after they found an unusual smell.

In the evening of November 25, as reported in NASA, the smell was scattered, and astronauts opened a hatch of a cargo ship to pick up the shipped cargo. The US Space Agency has stated that no danger was amazing smell for astronauts. Probably the smell came from the materials inside the freight space ship, reported in NASA, but no detailed information about what could cause it, the US space agency did not provide. NASA stated that the quality of air at the ISS did not deteriorate.

At the same time, according to Anatoly Zaka from the RussiaspacewEB online wage, Russian astronauts wore additional protective equipment for some time as a preventive measure after revealing an unusual smell. Currently, the hatch between the Russian and American ISS segment is usually closed. The fact is that in the Russian part of the orbital station since 2019 there is a constant leakage of air.

NASA and Roscosmos are trying to solve this problem, but both space agencies say that this leak is not a threat to astronauts. However, NASA and Roscosmos have never come to an opinion about the cause of air leakage and how to eliminate it. Space agencies are also arguing about how threatening this ISS is in the long run. As for the MS-29 Progress, it will remain connected to the ISS for several months.

During this time, astronauts will fill it with garbage and unnecessary equipment, after which the Russian spacecraft will fly to the ground in 2025 and burn in its atmosphere. Over the last two years, there have been problems with Russian spacecraft with Russian spacecraft. For example, in December 2022, a pilot spacecraft "Soyuz" occurred a strong leakage of fluid from the cooling system. Because of this, Roscosmos had to send a new spacecraft to orbit to pick up three astronauts.

Therefore, astronauts spent not six months on the ISS, as planned, but all year long. And in February 2023, a fluid leak out of the cooling system also occurred on the Progress Space Space Space According to Focus, Ilona Mask's rocket will send NASA nuclear helicopter for $ 3 billion per satellite. NASA has contract with SpaceX, whose rocket carrier will send a unique helicopter, equipped with a nuclear engine.