#NASA #ISS BREAKING from Bill Harwood of #CBSNews on Zombie Twitter:
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ISS: In the last few minutes, MCC-Houston asked the ISS crew to go to the cupola and look for any signs of "flakes" toward the aft of station; Jasmin Moghbeli reported "yeah, there's a leak coming from the radiator on MLM;" the MLM is the Russian Nauka multi-purpose lab module
#NASA #ISS From Bill Harwood on Zombie Twitter:
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ISS: There are believed to be two radiators on the Nauka lab module, including one launched years ago with the Rassvet module and installed earlier this year during a Russian EVA; leak origin not yet known
ISS: MCC to Mogensen: "We're still assessing with Moscow. Right now there are no impacts, still working to fully understand this one"
#NASA #ISS From Bill Harwood of #CBSNews on Zombie Twitter:
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ISS: Roscosmos says via Telegram "a coolant leak occurred from the external (backup) radiator circuit, which was delivered to the station in 2012;" it says Nauka's main coolant loop is operating normally and "the crew and the station are not in any danger"
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I'm going to secure from red alert unless circumstances change.
@WordsmithFL
Your updates were appreciated.π
@HopeSeeker Thank you. I'm glad it's nothing serious. The last time the Russians had a leak, their propaganda falsely claimed a female NASA astronaut had committed an act of sabotage. (Roscosmos blamed space debris.)
NASA has two female flight engineers aboard now. When I heard about the leak, that's the first thing I thought. "Uh oh, here we go again ..."
#NASA #ISS Live station audio with an external view (not of the leak) streaming live on the NASA YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rcSyN74BY0