{"id":34,"date":"2023-02-24T05:02:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T11:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehabiswas.com\/roscosmos-set-to-launch-soyuz-ms-23-to-replace-iss-damaged-soyuz-ms-22\/"},"modified":"2023-02-24T05:02:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T11:02:46","slug":"roscosmos-set-to-launch-soyuz-ms-23-to-replace-iss-damaged-soyuz-ms-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehabiswas.com\/roscosmos-set-to-launch-soyuz-ms-23-to-replace-iss-damaged-soyuz-ms-22\/","title":{"rendered":"ROSCOSMOS Set to Launch Soyuz MS-23 to Replace ISS’ Damaged Soyuz MS-22"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, February 24th, Russia\u2019s space agency, ROSCOSMOS, is set to launch an uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission aims to replace the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, which suffered a thermal control system leak on the ISS on December 15, 2022.[0]<\/a><\/sup> The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft will be launched atop a Soyuz 2.1a launch vehicle at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n

The Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft had a crew of three, Sergey Prokopyev (Commander), Dmitry Petelin (Flight Engineer 1), and Francisco Rubio (Flight Engineer 2) aboard.[1]<\/a><\/sup> It is currently believed that the issue occurred in the cooling system due to an object of ~1 mm puncturing a hole in the external cooling loop of the spacecraft.[1]<\/a><\/sup> However, it can not be determined whether this was a micrometeoroid or a small piece of orbital debris.[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

The leak drama has extended the mission duration for Prokopyev, Petelin, and Rubio, who came up to the ISS on MS-22 last September.[2]<\/a><\/sup> The three astronauts will remain on the space station until September 2023, so that another Soyuz spacecraft can be sent up with a new crew in the same year.[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

In order to inspect the damage, Russian cosmonauts and remote controlled cameras outside the complex captured high-resolution images of the Progress MS-21 spacecraft, revealing a 12-millimeter hole where the coolant fluid flowed out of the cooling system Feb. 11.[0]<\/a><\/sup> On February 18, engineers undocked Progress 82 from the ISS after finding the leak on the 11th.[4]<\/a><\/sup> Progress 82 was loaded with garbage, and its engine was fired to take it out of orbit.[4]<\/a><\/sup> In less than an hour, the impact was felt in the Southern Pacific Ocean.[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Roscosmos, Russia's space agency, shared an update on their Telegram channel that the initial investigation into the destruction of the Progress MS-21 cargo ship yielded results pointing to an “external influence,” rather than a production fault. An image of the Progress MS-21 cargo ship revealed a 12mm gap in the vessel's instrumentation compartment that the Russian space agency attributed to “external influences.” <\/p>\n

Early Monday morning, NASA is anticipating to launch its upcoming crew to the International Space Station.[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

0. <\/span>“Russia blames Progress leak on ‘external influences' as new Soyuz preps for launch \u2013 Spaceflight Now” Spaceflight Now, 22 Feb. 2023, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2023\/02\/21\/russia-blames-progress-coolant-leak-on-external-influences-as-replacement-soyuz-rolls-to-launch-pad<\/a><\/p>\n

1. <\/span>“Soyuz MS-23 | Soyuz 2.1a” Everyday Astronaut, 20 Feb. 2023, https:\/\/everydayastronaut.com\/soyuz-ms-23-soyuz-2-1a\/<\/a><\/p>\n

2. <\/span>“Russia launches Soyuz rescue mission to ISS after leak dilemma” UPI News, 24 Feb. 2023, https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2023\/02\/23\/launches-soyuz-rescue-mission-iss-leak-dilemma\/6231677197740\/<\/a><\/p>\n

3. <\/span>“Watch Russia launch replacement Soyuz to International Space Station on Thursday (Feb. 23)” Yahoo! Voices, 22 Feb. 2023, https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/watch-russia-launch-replacement-soyuz-110042353.html<\/a><\/p>\n

4. <\/span>“Stranded ISS crew to get a new spacecraft” EarthSky, 21 Feb. 2023, https:\/\/earthsky.org\/spaceflight\/stranded-iss-crew-feb-2023-soyuz\/<\/a><\/p>\n

5. <\/span>“Russia to launch Soyuz replacement to the space station on Thursday” The Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023, https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2023\/02\/21\/space-station-leak-soyuz-launch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, February 24th, Russia\u2019s space agency, ROSCOSMOS, is set to launch an uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission aims to replace the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, which suffered a thermal control system leak on the ISS on December 15, 2022.[0] The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft will be launched atop a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehabiswas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehabiswas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehabiswas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehabiswas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehabiswas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nehabiswas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehabiswas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehabiswas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehabiswas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehabiswas.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}