A damaged Russian Soyuz MS-22 capsule landed back on Earth on Tuesday, three months after coolant began leaking from the craft while it was docked at the International Space Station (ISS).
The module completed the almost two-hour return from the ISS without a crew, landing in the Kazakh steppe on Tuesday afternoon, a few hundred kilometres from the Baikonur cosmodrome, home to Russia's space launches.A significant coolant leak wasA tiny meteorite is likely to have pierced the structure while it was docked, experts say.
Russia sent a back-up capsule - the MS-23 - to the ISS last month and decided to bring the damaged MS-22 back to Earth without a crew. Roscosmos said the capsule returned on Tuesday with 218 kg of cargo, including the results of scientific experiments and equipment from the station that would be analysed on Earth or reused in future missions.
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