A smoke and fire alarm went off during a Russian service module on the International space platform (ISS) creating panic, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Thursday. As per reports, smoke detector and an alarm were depart on the Zvezda service module, which provides quarters for crew members on the ISS, when batteries were being recharged overnight. While Russian news agencies reported that cosmonauts smelled burning plastic.
The Cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov conducted a spacewalk outside the ISS at 10:51am ET for seven hours after a fire alarm went off in their part to organize the new Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module for operations. the issues began early Thursday and seems to possess been overcome with the team returning to rest.
According to a NASA broadcast, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky had seen and smelled smoke which French astronaut Thomas Pesquet said the smell of burnt plastic or electronics had spread from the Russian segment to the US section.
The crew activated air filters and returned to their “night rest” once the air quality was back to normal, consistent with Roscosmos The incident, which NASA declared a ‘space emergency,’ is that the latest during a string of problems to spur safety concerns over conditions on the Russian segment.