Alexander Khokhlov, a member of the North-Western organization of the Russian Cosmonautics Federation, named the robot Fedor
Let us recall that there was an air leak on the ISSdiscovered back in September last year. Subsequently, in the intermediate chamber of the Zvezda module a 4.5 cm long crack was found, which was temporarily repaired. Now a member of the North-Western organization of the Russian Cosmonautics Federation, Alexander Khokhlov, has put forward his theory about its source. So, the specialist suggests that the crack appeared during unloading and loading of the Fedor robot last year.
”Through the intermediate chamber in August-September2019, cosmonauts moved the anthropomorphic robot "Fedor" from the Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft to the station and back. The robot's transfer route was unplanned, since initially the ship was supposed to dock with the Poisk module, and not with the Zvezda module, – Khokhlov reported, noting that the robot was transported through a narrow intermediate chamber, which could have resulted in a crack.