A recent NASA report has again expressed concern about this leakage. The report said that in April 2024, this leakage reached 1.7 kg daily. NASA looks satisfied with the repair work being done to deal with this, but wants a permanent solution.
The cause of air leakage is not yet known. In addition to NASA, the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos is investigating interiors and external welding on ISS.
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Air leaks do not have much impact, so Astronauts keep the area closed from where more air leaks are being leaked. It is only visited there for necessary work.
Significantly, the US and Russia are joint partners of the International Space Station (ISS). However, there is some disagreement between the two about this leakage. If there is no permanent solution of leakage, then the area can also be closed forever from where the air is leaking. If this happens, Russia’s Soyuz Spacekraft will not be able to do the ISS in the future.
Air leak is not just a challenge. NASA has many more challenges on the ISS. There are also challenges of supply chains, spare parts in front of him. NASA wants the ISS to be operated by this decade in some way. Anyway, between 2028 and 2030, it will be destroyed by dropping it back to the atmosphere of the Earth.