Astronauts Akihiko Hoshide of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Thomas Pesquet, of the European Space Agency (ESA), left the International Space Station (ISS) for another spacewalk this Sunday (12).
The two are tasked with preparing the station for future updates to the ISS’s solar panels. The work started around 8:00 am (Brasilia time) and should take about six and a half hours.
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Cosmonauts also did spacewalk
During a period of 7 hours and 25 minutes, two Russian cosmonauts from Expedition 65 performed a spacewalk to maintenance of the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday (9). This was the 50th planned extravehicular activity that originated from the Russian segment of the orbital laboratory.
For the second time in seven days, Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov, both from the Russian Federal Space Corp. Roscosmos, donned Orlan spacesuits and exited the Poisk air chamber at 10:51 am EDT (11:51 am EDT) to begin cable routing for the multipurpose lab module known as Nauka.
Picking up where they left off at the end of their walk a week earlier, Novitskiy and Dubrov photographed the antennas on a Progress cargo ship docked at the ISS, installed four handrails to facilitate maneuvering on future spacewalks, and routed an Ethernet cable to allow data to be run from the US operating segment for experiments on the outside of the new module.
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