The Commission to investigate the incident on the ISS will finish its work in mid-September. This reported by Roscosmos.
Earlier it was reported that the results of the Commission will be officially announced at the end of next week. "The commission’s work will be completed in mid-September, its results will be delivered to Roscosmos State Corporation, and then there will be defined the measures to prevent such situations.", the state Corporation reported.
Roscosmos emphasizes, that references to so-called “sources in the rocket and space industry”, reporting various “versions” of the investigation, — a way of information manipulating and influencing the work of the commission's representatives.
Roscosmos recommends that Russian and foreign mass media refrain from publishing various versions, referring to anonymous sources, before the commission's work is completed.
Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin earlier said the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft, attacheds to the ISS, had been damaged from the inside and the space rocket corporation Energia was proceeding with inquiries to identify those responsible. Various versions were being considered, but the impact of a meteorite had already been ruled out. Investigation is in progress into who had access to the spacecraft, what manipulations and works were performed, and who supervised them, Rogozin said.
On August 30, instruments registered falling atmospheric pressure inside the ISS. The crew examined the compartments of the station and the spacecraft docked to it one by one to expose a two-millimeter hole in the hull of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft. In the evening of the same day it was patched up with several layers of epoxy resin. The air pressure on board the ISS returned to normal. On August 31, the crew reinforced the patch.
