15 jun 2026
Russia appears set to finally address long-term, serious space station cracks
Ten days ago, in a moment of very high drama in orbit, NASA directed its astronauts living on the International Space Station to briefly seek emergency refuge in a Crew Dragon spacecraft. Since then, neither the US space agency nor Roscosmos has provided additional public information about the situation in orbit. But according to sources who spoke to Ars, following the spectacle in space, the problem has been successfully fixed. At issue were persistent cracks in a small area of the International Space Station attached to the Russian Zvezda service module, known as the PrK module.
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