[LibWhacker]

Kapton high-temperature tape

Never heard of it.

[C210N]

NASA.. noticed a minor drop in air pressure within the station ... Flight controllers allowed the crew to continue sleeping since the pressure drop did not pose an immediate risk to the crew...

In aviation, there is something known as "stop drilling", to prevent a crack or rip from continuing and lengthening. Seems like, while NASA complains about Russian rushing-to-repair, they were themselves taking a risk that the tear or crack was not something, small now, but a leak in progress getting larger.

[PIF]

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[Pelham]

the hold muh beer solution:

http://www.fixaleak.com/

https://www.fixaflat.com/us/index.php

[zeestephen]

They need to test a repair procedure on Earth first?

Seems like repairing a puncture or crack in the hull should have been carefully planned and tested BEFORE this happened.

Or, maybe the Russian module has always been a catastrophe waiting to happen, and NASA has ignored that fact in political deference to the “International” Space Station?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The long term solution to this problem is pretty obvious, and not extremely expensive. It is the Big Ball of Sticky solution. A satellite once in orbit, flies a very irregular, 3 dimensional orbit, after surrounding itself with a heat and cold resistant polymer blob of goo.

Its purpose is to collide with clouds of small orbital debris that even if they hit it at high speed will stick to the polymer. Then once it has a full load, it reenters the atmosphere burning it all up.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Get some of that tape to Sen. Bill Nelson and get him on the next Soyuz.

[MrBambaLaMamba]

Get some of that tape to Sen. Bill Nelson and get him on the next Soyuz.

[mabarker1]

A 2mm hole ?

Strip search for a 2mm drill bit.

The Kapon tape is the brown flexible stuff inside computers and other electronic devices.

[ExSES]

With the ever increasing quantity of "Space Junk" in orbit..., we better perfect "Force-Field Technology" soon or face launch vehicles becoming "Swiss Cheese" from debris strikes!

[Vinnie]

‘Phil here, Flex Tape will stick even under water, outer space’
‘Order now, $19.95. But wait..........’

[roadcat]

Kapton high-temperature tape

I use it in electronics work when repairing laptops and such. It's a common thing in computers.

[Sasparilla]

Orbital debris can’t be avoided. That’s why some high schools will be named after some astronauts.

[fishtank]

[blueplum]

The first problem they’re going to have with epoxy is, the exterior is freezing, so will the epoxy be able to set in any thickness, and how brittle will that thickness be? The next problem is even JBWeld HiTemp fails over 600degrees, so it will melt/burn on re-entry. Epoxy was the wrong move, including fumes that can’t be scrubbed. The hole needs to be located and patched from the outside.