Russian Cosmonauts Complete Spacewalk Outside International Space Station
Date
8/10/2023 3:11:17 PM
(MENAFN- AzerNews) Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin, who is
also a TASS special reporter in space, have completed their
spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS), Azernews
reports, citing Kabar.
The cosmonauts opened the exit hatch of the Poisk module aboard
the ISS at 6:45 p.m. Moscow time on Wednesday and their spacewalk
lasted for six hours 35 minutes. Initially, the cosmonauts were
expected to spend six hours and 45 minutes in their extravehicular
activity.
Prokopyev and Petelin mounted additional micrometeoroid
protection shields on the Rassvet module in the spots vacated after
the transfer of a heat exchanger and an airlock to the Nauka
research lab. The cosmonauts also prepared a portable workplace on
the Rassvet module designed for fixing the cosmonaut's position and
his movements.
With the help of the ERA robotic arm, Prokopyev was transferred
in his workplace in test mode for the first time. His teammate
Andrey Fedyayev controlled the process from aboard the orbital
station.
This spacewalk was the eighth in the space career of Prokopyev,
who worked outside the orbital station in spacesuit Orlan-ISS No. 5
with red stripes, and the sixth for Petelin, who wore spacesuit
Orlan-ISS No. 4 with blue stripes.
Before their spacewalk, the Russian cosmonauts conducted
preparatory work with the spacesuits. As the TASS special reporter
in orbit informed on August 7, he checked together with Prokopyev
the air tightness and parameters of the spacesuits.
The ISS Russian crew carried out their previous extravehicular
activity on the evening of June 22. During their work outside the
orbital outpost, they dismantled the old communications equipment
from the Zvezda module and installed a new high-speed data
transmission radio-technical system (RSPI-M). To date, they have
carried out five spacewalks this year.
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