Inform Sine dies. The decision fell this Friday: the private mission of Axiom 4, which was to take the first Indian astronaut in history, as well as the Polish and Hungarian astronauts for a 14 -day mission aboard the ISS, the International Space Station, is postponed without a new scheduled date.
NASA highlights a leak on the Russian side of the orbital module. However, the officials emphasized that the seven astronauts currently present at the space station were safe and that other operations on the site would not be affected.
For its part, the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos has announced that this leak that leads to pressure problems had been repaired, the Interfax news agency reported.
According to The Guardian, the three Russians on board recently inspected the interior walls of the Zvezda aged service module, launched in 2000, as well as a link tunnel. They sealed certain areas and measured the current leakage speed.
“Thanks to these efforts, the segment now maintains the pressure,” NASA said in an online update. But now it is a question for the two space agencies to evaluate the situation and determine if additional repairs are necessary.
“The right decision to make”
“This is the right decision to be taken,” said Kam Ghaffian, executive president of Axiom Space, the private company that operates this paid mission, the fourth of this type. “We will continue working with all our partners to finish a new release date.”
This is the second postponement for this mission, the first (June 10) was due to bad weather and the problems in the Spacex rocket. The four Astronauts, led by NASA retronaut Peggy Whitson, now employed by the Axiom space, will remain in quarantine in Florida.
This is a new disappointment for India, since Shuhanshu Shukla, 39, would be the first national in the country to join the ISS. This trip arrives 41 years after the first shipment of an Indian astronaut, Rakesh Sharma, who had gone in space for eight days aboard a Soviet pitcher in 1984.
“This is the trip of 1.4 billion people,” he told the newspaper The Hinduciting the number of inhabitants in India. According to several Indian media, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has paid more than $ 60 million for the mission, whose objective is to carry out 60 scientific studies.
Source: BFM TV
