The Russian Progress MS-21 cargo craft is pictured on Oct. 28, 2022, shortly after docking on the Worldwide House Station. On Saturday, the Russian area company mentioned the spacecraft misplaced cabin strain.

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The Russian Progress MS-21 cargo craft is pictured on Oct. 28, 2022, shortly after docking on the Worldwide House Station. On Saturday, the Russian area company mentioned the spacecraft misplaced cabin strain.

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An uncrewed Russian spacecraft docked on the Worldwide House Station has misplaced cabin strain, however the incident doesn’t pose a hazard to the station’s crew, the Russian area company mentioned on Saturday.

Specialists close to Moscow first recognized depressurization contained in the Progress MS-21 cargo ship, Roscosmos mentioned. Its passage hatch has since been locked to forestall additional lack of strain.

The cargo spacecraft was scheduled to undock from the Worldwide House Station on Feb. 18. All tools scheduled for removing has already been loaded onto the spaceship.

Roscosmos mentioned the trigger for the spaceship’s sudden depressurization is being investigated. It added that the incident shouldn’t have an effect on the station’s future flight program.

NASA has not but confirmed to NPR whether or not it is responding to the incident.

The announcement got here shortly after a brand new Russian cargo ship docked on the station on Saturday, the Related Press reported. The Progress MS-22 delivered practically three tons of meals, water and gasoline together with scientific tools.

In December, a deliberate spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts was abruptly referred to as off after floor groups seen a leak from a differnt Soyuz spacecraft docked on the area station. The coolant leak was later blamed on a meteoroid strike.