Russian engineers are working to evaluate the health of the Soyuz MS-22 capsule after an uncontrolled coolant leak.
The Soyuz MS-22 is docked to a Russian port on the Earth-facing side of the station. It launched to the station in September to deliver Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio to the orbiting lab. It was Prokopyev and Petelin who were planning to take a spacewalk when the leak began on Wednesday evening. By midday Thursday , most of the coolant had leaked out, NASA said.
meanwhile, will use the station's Canadian-built Canadarm2 to inspect the Soyuz on Sunday .
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