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Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov informed the Mission Control Center of an abnormal shutdown of one of the backup air conditioning systems on the ISS. Roskosmos said this “is a feature of the system.”
On January 21, in the Russian module of the International Space Station, the “Electron-VM” oxygen production system was switched off. This was learned from the crew’s negotiations with Earth, broadcast by NASA, writes “RIA Novosti.”
Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryzhikov informed Mission Control Center specialists about an abnormal shutdown of one of the backup air conditioning systems on the ISS. Roscosmos said the emergency shutdown “is a feature of the system.”
According to the news agency, Ryzhikov also announced the shutdown of Electron-VM, according to him, they tried to start the system, but to no avail.
RIA Novosti writes that the oxygen production system “failed many times in October and December 2020.” According to the agency, there are oxygen reserves on the ISS, and the OGS oxygen production system in the Tranquility module is also located on the US segment of the ISS.
The American astronauts shared food with their Russian counterparts aboard the ISS due to the postponement of the launch of the Progress cargo spacecraft, which was supposed to deliver food to the Russians.
Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, American astronauts Kathleen Rubins, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Japanese Soichi Noguchi are currently working on the ISS.
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