It's unclear at the moment if the hole was caused by a micrometeoroid strike.
The Soyuz, known as MS-22, carried cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio up to the ISS in September. It's scheduled to fly the trio back to Earth in March.
Roscosmos is currently assessing whether the vehicle, which apparently has no coolant left, will be up to that task. A decision is expected by the end of the month. in Kazakhstan to bring Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio home, Russian space officials have said. Coolant leaking from Russia's Soyuz crew capsule docked to the International Space Station on Dec. 14, 2022.
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