A coolant leak from an uncrewed Russian supply ship at the International Space Station resulted from an external impact, Roscosmos said.
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NASA said its specialists were assisting their Russian counterparts in the troubleshooting of the leak. After ruling out the manufacturing flaw, Roscosmos cleared the launch of a new Soyuz crew capsule that should replace the damaged one.Russian Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio were supposed to ride the Soyuz they used to arrive at the station to return to Earth in March, but Russian space officials decided that higher temperatures resulting from the coolant leak could make it dangerous to use.
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