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Russian Oxygen Generation System Fails on Space Station, Crew Says

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The oxygen generation system (OGS) has failed in the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), according to the crew's talks... 14.10.2020, Sputnik International

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Russian Oxygen Generation System Fails on Space Station, Crew Says

23:13 GMT 14.10.2020 (Updated: 17:02 GMT 12.04.2023)

© REUTERS / IVAN VAGNER/RUSSIAN SPACE AGENCYThe Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft carrying the crew formed of Kathleen Rubins of NASA, Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos is seen before docking to Rassvet module of the International Space Station (ISS), October 14, 2020, in this picture taken by Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner from the International Space Station (ISS).

The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft carrying the crew formed of Kathleen Rubins of NASA, Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos is seen before docking to Rassvet module of the International Space Station (ISS), October 14, 2020, in this picture taken by Russian cosmonaut Ivan Vagner from the International Space Station (ISS). - Sputnik International

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The oxygen generation system (OGS) has failed in the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS), according to the crew's talks with the Earth, broadcast by NASA.

Oxygen generation system failures happen on the ISS, but the station has oxygen reserves.

A Russian cosmonaut told a specialist from the Mission Control Centre in the Moscow Region that the Electron-VM OGS installed in the Russian Zvezda module had failed.

As if an air leak wasn't enough. Russian media reports that the oxygen production system, Electron-VM, failed in the #Zvezda module. There is no reason to be worry yet, such things happen from time to time, and are usually being successfully fixed. https://t.co/IWhHNpoFPO pic.twitter.com/No7xkHaVPP
— Katya Pavlushchenko (@katlinegrey) October 14, 2020

The American segment of the space station has its own oxygen generation system.

Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin, Ivan Vagner, Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, as well as NASA astronauts Christopher Cassidy and Kathleen Rubins, are currently working on the ISS.