Russian Progress cargo craft at space station springs a leak

That seems like a very low probability coincidence for random strikes by space junk or natural meteoroids. Unless there is a constant barrage of impacts that usually don't do significant damage and we just aren't told about that. In that latter case, the vulnerability of the various systems could make sense for something like the the cooling systems to be repeatedly damaged if they have the highest probability for being damaged.

So, does anybody know the frequency of non-damaging strikes on the ISS? If it is significant, I would expect there to be some good data from the effects on those huge solar cell arrays, which have a lot more area than the cooling pipes in Russian space vehicles.

There are some other reports of strikes, such as https://www.nbcnews.com/science/spa...rnational-space-stations-robotic-arm-rcna1067
and https://www.snexplores.org/article/space-trash-kill-satellites-space-station-astronauts

The second link states "Astronauts have visited and repaired the [Hubble] telescope multiple times in the last three decades. Each time they have found hundreds of tiny craters in the solar panels. These were left by collisions with small pieces of debris. Scientists have been logging the pattern and incidence of these impacts. That data will help the scientists build computer models that predict not only how many tiny pieces remain in orbit, but also where they are."

So, this does sound like a barrage situation.
 
That seems like a very low probability coincidence for random strikes by space junk or natural meteoroids…

So, this does sound like a barrage situation.
When you look at what a mess the supposedly "powerful" Russian military has shown itself to be in Ukraine, I would be surprised if Russian spacecraft didn't have problems!

I think what we're seeing is a "barrage" of corruption and idiocy here. As with the military, it's showing up with symptoms of "deferred maintenance."
 
Note that every country that has a space program has its failures, seems to be Russia's turn now. This one, the one where the Russian craft had a thruster stuck open and the ISS went into a spin, and several failed to achieve orbit. But NASA had Gemini VIII with thruster failure, Apollo 1 fire, Apollo 13 explosion, Challenger, Columbia, as well as a number of unmanned stuff.
 
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