Roscosmos reported an air leak on the Russian segment of the ISS

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MOSCOW, February 28 Experts have detected an air leak on board the International Space Station, Roscosmos reported.
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"Indeed, experts have detected a leak air on board the ISS. The crew regularly carries out work to find and eliminate possible leaks, and data received from the station is transferred for analysis to specialists as usual,” the state corporation clarified.

On Wednesday, NASA's International Space Station program manager, Joel Montalbano, announced a leak on the ISS. According to him, it is located “in the aft part of the Russian service module,” where the Progress cargo ships are docked.

Roscosmos emphasized that the crew and the station will not suffer anything due to the leak threatens.

«As previously reported, the obsolescence of the station design and the ever-increasing need for repair and restoration work on board take up a significant amount of crew time,” the state corporation added.< br />

In 2019, an air leak was recorded on the ISS. As the cosmonauts managed to find out, she was in the intermediate chamber of the Russian Zvezda module. A crack several centimeters long was subsequently discovered there. It was taped several times. Later it became known about a second crack, and then three more places of possible leakage. The astronauts sealed them.
After this, no new sources of leakage were officially reported in the hull of the International Space Station or their elimination.