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thewayneIn the last twelve months, twice Russia has had leaks on Soyuz space craft radiators, resulting in them dumping all of their coolant into space.
Well, it's happened again.
In this case, it's their Nauka science module, and an unused coolant loop. That is to say, a coolant loop that is not currently in use, it's planned for use with future experiments. Something happened and it has or is in the process of dumping all its coolant.
The two Soyuz leaks were blamed on micrometeorite impacts, what will take the blame for the Nauka leak? One micrometeorite? Okay, plausible. Two? When nothing has damaged any of the American equipment in similar fashion? Why don't we instead talk about the terrible state of the Russian space program: the funding cuts, the very low morale, the poor quality control.
I think you might find a lot of micrometeorite accumulation if you looked there.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/for-the-third-time-in-a-year-russian-hardware-on-the-space-station-is-leaking/
Well, it's happened again.
In this case, it's their Nauka science module, and an unused coolant loop. That is to say, a coolant loop that is not currently in use, it's planned for use with future experiments. Something happened and it has or is in the process of dumping all its coolant.
The two Soyuz leaks were blamed on micrometeorite impacts, what will take the blame for the Nauka leak? One micrometeorite? Okay, plausible. Two? When nothing has damaged any of the American equipment in similar fashion? Why don't we instead talk about the terrible state of the Russian space program: the funding cuts, the very low morale, the poor quality control.
I think you might find a lot of micrometeorite accumulation if you looked there.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/10/for-the-third-time-in-a-year-russian-hardware-on-the-space-station-is-leaking/
