Two Russian cosmonauts will enterprise outdoors the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) at the moment (Nov. 17), and you may watch the motion reside.
Sergey Prokopyev, who instructions the station’s present Expedition 68 mission, and Dmitri Petelin are scheduled to start a spacewalk at the moment at 9:20 a.m. EST (1420 GMT). You may watch reside right here at Area.com, courtesy of NASA, starting at 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT).
Prokopyev and Petelin will put together an airlock and radiator for set up on Russia’s Nauka module throughout their tour, which is predicted to final about seven hours, NASA officers wrote in a preview (opens in new tab) on Wednesday (Nov. 16).
Fellow cosmonaut Anna Kikina “will function the European robotic arm from inside Nauka and help the duo working within the microgravity atmosphere of their Orlan spacesuits,” company officers added.
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In the present day’s spacewalk follows carefully on the heels of an American extravehicular exercise (EVA) carried out Tuesday (Nov. 15) by NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio.
Cassada and Rubio spent about seven hours outside the station, making ready it for the set up of a set of ISS Roll Out Photo voltaic Arrays, or iROSAs, which can increase the orbiting lab’s energy provide.
A number of extra spacewalks are simply across the nook: NASA has EVAs deliberate for Nov. 28 and Dec. 1, each of that are targeted on iROSA set up as effectively.
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