The International Space Station is currently working typically with no danger to its occupants after the team managed to deal with a series of technical concerns overnight, Russia’s space firm claimed Tuesday.
The team aboard the ISS had actually reported problems with the oxygen production system, a toilet and also the stove for preparing food.
” The problems that took place aboard the ISS throughout the night of 19-20 October have actually been totally settled by the team,” Russia’s space agency Roscosmos stated in a declaration.
” All the systems of the station are functioning well and there is no danger to the team or the ISS.”
The crew had actually reported overnight that the commode on the Russian segment of the ISS was out of order, that the water supply used to supply oxygen to the crew were vacant which there were problems with home heating food.
The problems developed as half of the six individual team– NASA’s Chris Cassidy and also cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and also Ivan Vagner– are preparing to leave for an arrival back in the world early Thursday.
The problems were the latest technological issues to strike the ISS, whose crew have actually needed to take care of a range of problems in current weeks.
The orbital lab’s very first module was introduced over two decades ago in 1998 as well as there have actually been expanding issues about its age.
Last week, the oxygen supply system in the Zvezda module of the Russian sector of the station failed. Roscosmos said at the weekend break that this has now been repaired.
A tiny air leakage that was spotted in August has actually also currently been patched up, after tea leaves from a torn tea bag helped notify the staff to the site of the leakage.
Priced quote by the state-run RIA Novosti information company recently, expert Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka claimed that the Russian devices on the ISS was well past its use-by date.
” All modules of the Russian sector are exhausted,” claimed Padalka, who holds the world record for most days spent precede.
He included that the two-decade-old devices must just be used for 15 years.