The damaged Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft will return to Earth in March

The damaged Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft will return to Earth in March


The Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-22, on which the a leak coolant, will return to Earth in March 2023. According to Roskosmos, the ship will return without astronauts on board.

“The unmanned Soyuz will deliver cargo and scientific equipment to Earth - yesterday Sergey Prokopiev, Dmitry Petelin and Anna Kikina prepared it for shipment,” the statement says. Telegram state corporations.

On January 14, Roscosmos announced that the Soyuz MS-22 crew would return to Earth on the Soyuz MS-23. His will launch to the ISS on February 20.

The leak on Soyuz MS-22 became known on December 15. According to preliminary data, the ship's radiator could have damaged debris or a micrometeorite, which caused a depressurization of the external circuit of the cooling system.

Andrey Sapozhnikov



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