Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub concluded their spacewalk Oct. 25 at 9:30 p.m. EDT after 7 hours and 41 minutes.
Throughout the spacewalk, Kononenko and Chub inspected and photographed an exterior backup radiator on the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module, in addition to remoted the radiator from Nauka’s cooling system. Throughout the radiator inspection, a bubble of coolant liberated on the leak website and the crew wiped down their fits previous to persevering with the spacewalk.
The 2 cosmonauts additionally launched a nanosatellite to check photo voltaic sail know-how; nevertheless, the nanosatellite’s photo voltaic sail did not deploy so far as cameras might observe its departure from the station. The cosmonauts additionally put in an artificial radar communications system. One among 4 panels on the radar system was not in a position to be absolutely deployed through the spacewalk and the work can be deferred to a future date.
On the finish of the spacewalk, earlier than reentering the Poisk airlock, the 2 spacewalking cosmonauts as standard inspected the Roscosmos Orlan spacesuits and the instruments used through the spacewalk to search for indicators of coolant and wipe off any coolant as crucial. The cosmonauts additionally wiped down their fits and instruments as standard after repressurization to additional cut back introduction of hint contaminates into the area station atmosphere. Further filtration will then be used contained in the area station so as to rapidly scrub the environment of any remaining traces of contaminant. This was the sixth spacewalk in Kononenko’s profession, and the primary for Chub. It’s the 268th spacewalk for area station meeting, upkeep, and upgrades.
Up subsequent, NASA astronauts Loral O’Hara and Jasmin Moghbeli will conduct a spacewalk on Monday, Oct. 30. Dwell protection of the spacewalk begins at 6:30 a.m. on NASA Tv, the NASA app, and the company’s website. The spacewalk is scheduled to start about 8:05 a.m., and final about six-and-a-half hours.
Throughout U.S. spacewalk 89, O’Hara and Moghbeli will exit the station’s Quest airlock to finish the elimination of a defective electronics field from a communications antenna bracket and exchange certainly one of twelve Trundle Bearing Assemblies on the port truss Photo voltaic Alpha Rotary Joint. It will likely be the primary spacewalk for each astronauts.
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