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The ISS Is Still Leaking Air, And The Hunt For a Hole Is Taking Longer Than Expected – ScienceAlert
Efforts to pinpoint the source of a minor leak on the space station are taking longer than NASA expected.
A tiny bit of air always leaks from the International Space Station — but not quite as much as is leaking now.
Officials first noticed a leak last September, but they didn’t do anything about it for nearly a year, since the leak wasn’t major. Plus, station operations like space walks and crew exchanges kept crew members too busy to collect enough data about the issue.
Recently, however, technicians detected an increase to the already elevated leak rate. So NASA announced on August 20 that the …
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