A 17-metre Canadian-made robotic arm on the International Space Station (ISS) will inspect the Soyuz spacecraft docked to the ISS after a leak was spotted just before last week’s launch into space, Russia’s Derzhcosmos announced on Sunday. corporation, reports Reuters.

After the cancellation of the spacewalk on December 15, Roscosmos reported damage to the outer membrane of the instrument compartment of the Soyuz MS-22 capsule and a coolant leak.

Cosmonauts Serhii Prokopiev, Dmytro Petelin and Anna Kikina are resting on the space station, and then they will watch the final of the World Cup in football, Roscosmos reported.

“The Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft will be inspected using SSRMS cameras, the space station’s remote control system. The results will be transmitted to Earth on Monday,” Roscosmos said in a statement.

Commonly known as Canadarm2, SSRMS is a 17-metre arm that performs maintenance, transports supplies and docks vehicles to the space station.

“The temperature in the Soyuz MS-22 manned spacecraft was reduced thanks to the actions of the specialists of the Moscow-based Flight Control Center, remaining within the specified limits,” the report says.

Preparations are underway for the launch of the Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft from Baikonur in Kazakhstan, and the Russian space agency has said that the launch can be accelerated if necessary.

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