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Agence France-Presse

Russian investigators looking into the origin of a hole that caused an oxygen leak on the International Space Station have said it was caused deliberately, the space agency chief said.
A first commission had delivered its report, Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, said in televised remarks late on Monday.
“It concluded that a manufacturing defect had been ruled out which is important to establish the truth.”

Rogozin said the commission’s main line of inquiry was that the hole had been drilled deliberately, a position that has been voiced in the past.
“Where it was made will be established by a second commission, which is at work now,” he said.
The small hole in the wall of a Russian-made Soyuz space capsule docked onto the ISS was found in August and quickly sealed up.
Officials have suggested a number of possible reasons for the appearance of the hole.
A top government official has denied a Russian media report that the investigation looked at the possibility that US astronauts had drilled the hole to get a sick colleague sent back to Earth.
The current ISS commander, US astronaut Drew Feustel, called the suggestion that the crew was somehow involved “embarrassing”.

Rogozin – who previously oversaw the space industry as deputy prime minister – was appointed head of Roskosmos last May, in a move analysts said would spell trouble for the embattled sector.
The official, who was placed under US sanctions over the Ukraine crisis in 2014, admitted it had become difficult to work with Nasa.
“Problems with Nasa have certainly appeared but not through the fault of Nasa,” he said, blaming unnamed American officials for telling the US space agency what to do.
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He also claimed that SpaceX founder Elon Musk sought to squeeze Russia out of the space launch services market and complained about the US military drone X-37.
“Americans have this thing, the X-37,” Rogozin said. “We don’t understand its purposes. Rather, we do understand, but we have not received an official explanation. Essentially, this thing can be used as a weapons carrier.”


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The International Space Station in an undated picture. Photo: NASA via AP

epa06998177 An undated handout photo made available by NASA showing a hole found in the International Space Station (ISS). Media reports state that astronauts aboard the International Space Station responded to an alarm on 31 August 2018 indicating that the ISS was losing pressure. Reports further state that a hole was discovered in the Russian-built Soyuz spacecraft docked to the space station and an astronaut temporarily plugged the leak. Russia’s state space corporation is currently investigating what caused the damage. EPA-EFE/NASA / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, June 6, 2018, Roscosmos state space corporation head Dmitry Rogozin, accompanies new International Space Station crew members, to the rocket prior the launch at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Russian news agencies on Tuesday Sept. 4, 2018, quoted Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin saying that the hole was drilled by "an unsteady hand" potentially during manufacturing. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, FILE)

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FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, June 6, 2018, Roscosmos state space corporation head Dmitry Rogozin, accompanies new International Space Station crew members, to the rocket prior the launch at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Russian news agencies on Tuesday Sept. 4, 2018, quoted Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin saying that the hole was drilled by “an unsteady hand” potentially during manufacturing. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky, FILE)

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