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Russia Thinks Someone With a Drill Caused the Recent ISS Air Leak (arstechnica.com)
Last week, NASA discovered a small pressure leak on the International Space Station. U.S. and Russian crew members managed to trace the leak to a 2mm breach in the orbital module of the Soyuz MS-09 vehicle and patch it with epoxy. The drama might have ended there, as it was initially presumed that the breach had been caused by a tiny bit of orbital debris, but Russian news outlets are reporting that the problem was a manufacturing defect. "It remains unclear whether the hole was an accidental error or intentional," reports Ars Technica. "There is evidence that a technician saw the drilling mistake and covered the hole with glue, which prevented the problem from being detected during a vacuum test."
"We are able to narrow down the cause to a technological mistake of a technician. We can see the mark where the drill bit slid along the surface of the hull," Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, told RIA Novosti. "We want to find out the full name of who is at fault -- and we will." From the report: NASA spokesman Dan Huot, based in Houston where the space station program is managed, deferred all comment on the issue to Roscosmos. The spacecraft was manufactured by Energia, a Russian corporation. A former employee of the company who is now a professor at Moscow State University told another Russian publication that these kinds of incidents have occurred before at Energia. "I have conducted investigations of all kinds of spacecraft, and after landing, we discovered a hole drilled completely through the hull of a re-entry module," the former Energia employee, Viktor Minenko, said in Gazeta.RU. "But the technician didn't report the defect to anyone but sealed up the hole with epoxy. We found the person, and after a commotion he was terminated," said Minenko. In this case, the technician used glue instead of epoxy. As the Soyuz hull is made from an aluminum alloy, it could have been properly repaired on Earth by welding, had the technician reported the mistake.
"We are able to narrow down the cause to a technological mistake of a technician. We can see the mark where the drill bit slid along the surface of the hull," Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, told RIA Novosti. "We want to find out the full name of who is at fault -- and we will." From the report: NASA spokesman Dan Huot, based in Houston where the space station program is managed, deferred all comment on the issue to Roscosmos. The spacecraft was manufactured by Energia, a Russian corporation. A former employee of the company who is now a professor at Moscow State University told another Russian publication that these kinds of incidents have occurred before at Energia. "I have conducted investigations of all kinds of spacecraft, and after landing, we discovered a hole drilled completely through the hull of a re-entry module," the former Energia employee, Viktor Minenko, said in Gazeta.RU. "But the technician didn't report the defect to anyone but sealed up the hole with epoxy. We found the person, and after a commotion he was terminated," said Minenko. In this case, the technician used glue instead of epoxy. As the Soyuz hull is made from an aluminum alloy, it could have been properly repaired on Earth by welding, had the technician reported the mistake.
You're not even trying to hide it now are you Vladimir's little pawn? You should hurry and leave Russia now before it collapses into civil war and disintegrates into a dozen republics fighting each other over control of the few remaining soviet nuclear weapon stockpiles that haven't been sold off yet. Putin has no future, and Russia has no future as long as he lives.
You're transparent as a tool of Glavset. You are avoiding the reality of Putin's policies in favor of a biased and intentionally misdirected version of history that isn't actually supported by the facts. East Germany had outdated equipment to such a degree that it is still lagging after re-unification. All of the Soviet facilities were outdated before construction even finished. Of course there would be a period of economic adjustment. Yeltsin can't be blamed. for that, and certainly the murder of Boris Nemtsov is clear indication of what Putin does as actual policy. Putin's wars (Medvedev was a pawn too, but one much higher ranked than you'll ever be) in Georgia and Chechnya and more recently Ukraine all point to his actual policies. Putin is destroying Russia's future by destroying all countries around it, and pissing in the regional balance of trade since he killed Russia's economy for the sake of faked military capacity. The EU alone can destroy Russia now, in an all out fight.
Russia is a paper tiger, decimated in its actual population demographics by the collapse of healthcare and spread of AIDs, as well as general malnutrition and underdeveloped infrastructure. Its armies are weak. Its soldiers are weak. Its navy is a joke. Its nuclear stockpile is outdated and lacks the necessary fuel and the computer components to target anything smaller than Russia itself. They are only suitable for Putin to use against Russias.