Roskomos announced that the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft, on which a coolant leak was recorded, will return to Earth without a crew. The Russian space agency reported this on Telegram.

Cosmonauts Sergei Prokopiev, Dmitry Petelin and astronaut Francisco Rubio, who are now on the ISS, will be returned to the planet on the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft. It is scheduled to launch on February 20.

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It was previously planned that Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara would go to the station on it.. The launch was supposed to take place on March 16, that is, it will be made a month earlier.

At the same time, Roscosmos noted that the expedition of Prokopiev, Petelin and Rubio is being extended.

The space department of the aggressor country also explained the causes of the leak on the Soyuz.

“The version of technical damage to the radiator during manufacture is not confirmed. It has been experimentally proven that the damage to the radiator pipeline occurred as a result of a meteoroid impact. The hole diameter is less than 1 millimeter..

Recall that the leak was registered on December 14, an hour before the Russian cosmonauts were supposed to go into outer space.. The "

Later, Russian media, citing sources, reported that the temperature in the Soyuz had risen to 50 degrees Celsius.. Roskomos denies this, estimating the temperature of the ship at 30 degrees Celsius.