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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 12/15/2022

    Significant Items: Soyuz Coolant Leak: During preparation for RS EVA 56, coolant was seen leaking via external cameras from the external thermal control loop on the Soyuz 68S Instrumentation Module. MCC-M made a decision to cancel RS EVA 56 before crew opened the EV hatch. A commission has been formed to investigate this anomaly. Payloads: …

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    NASA Provides Update on International Space Station Operations

    On Wednesday, Dec. 14, an external leak was detected from the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked to the Rassvet module on the International Space Station. The external radiator cooling loop of the Soyuz is the suspected leak source. The Roscosmos Mission Control team in Moscow postponed Wednesday evening’s planned spacewalk with two cosmonauts to evaluate …

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    Mission Controllers Assess Soyuz Coolant Leak

    Ground teams at Mission Control in Moscow continue to assess a coolant leak detected from the aft end of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked to the International Space Station. As a result, the planned Dec.14 Roscosmos spacewalk was canceled to allow time to evaluate the fluid and potential impacts to the integrity of the Soyuz …

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    Spacewalk Cancelled, Mission Controllers Evaluate Leak on Soyuz

    During preparations for this evening’s planned spacewalk by Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, ground teams noticed significant leaking of an unknown substance from the aft portion of the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked to the Rassvet module on the International Space Station. The spacewalk has been canceled, and ground teams in Moscow are evaluating …

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    NASA Updates SWOT Launch Date, TV Coverage

    NASA, the French space agency Centre National d'Études Spatiales, and SpaceX now are targeting 3:46 a.m. PST on Friday, Dec. 16, for launch of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission. After SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket went vertical on the pad at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in …

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    Cosmonauts Preparing for Spacewalk Live on NASA TV

    NASA Television coverage is underway for today’s spacewalk with Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitriy Petelin. The duo, with assistance from European robotic arm operator cosmonaut Anna Kikina, will relocate a radiator from the Rassvet module to the Nauka science module on the International Space Station Coverage of the spacewalk is on NASA Television the …

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    ISS Daily Summary Report – 12/14/2022

    Payloads: JEM Water Recovery System (JWRS): The JWRS Gas Trap Module B and T-union were reconnected. The JWRS Valve Module SV-7 was reinstalled and the JWRS Bypass Line tube tip was cut as part of JWRS troubleshooting. The demonstration of JWRS generates potable water from urine. In the past, urine and wastewater were collected and …

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    SWOT Prelaunch News Briefing Time Changed to 3 p.m. EST (Noon PST)

    nside the SpaceX facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, a crane is used to lower the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite for mating to the payload adapter on Dec. 5, 2022.

    NASA is adjusting the coverage time for the international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission's prelaunch news conference. NEW TIME: 3 p.m. EST (noon PST) – SWOT Prelaunch News Conference on NASA TV and YouTube with the following participants: Karen St. Germain, director, NASA's Earth Science Division Thierry Lafon, SWOT project manager, CNES Tim Dunn, launch director, NASA's Launch …

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    Webb Glimpses Field of Extragalactic PEARLS, Studded With Galactic Diamonds

    On a black background, a white border outlines an irregularly shaped, mostly rectangular area. Within the outline lie hundreds of galaxies of various shapes, colors, and sizes. Two white boxes on the left side of the field enclose groups of galaxies. From each box, a line extends out beyond the border of the galaxy field to an enlarged image of the galaxy group, revealing streams of stars and tidal tails. On the right side, a third box encloses a spiral galaxy. A line extends beyond the border of the galaxy field to an enlarged image of the spiral galaxy. A few stars are also scattered across the image. Some have Webb's characteristic 8 diffraction spikes, while others have additional spikes due to a combination of image exposures.

    NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured one of the first medium-deep wide-field images of the cosmos, featuring a region of the sky known as the North Ecliptic Pole. The image, which accompanies a paper published in the Astronomical Journal, is from the Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science (PEARLS) GTO program. "Medium-deep" …

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