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Emergency Spacewalk Likely for ‘Serious’ ISS Coolant Leak
A slide showing the P6 Truss, the location of the coolant leak on the International Space Station. Credit: NASA.
Astronauts on the International Space Station are preparing for a potential emergency spacewalk to fix an ammonia coolant leak outside the station. On Thursday, the ISS crew spotted small white flakes floating away from an area of the Station’s P6 truss structure, and noticed pressure drops in the control panel of the pump and flow control system for the power-supplying solar arrays.
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