Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev concluded their spacewalk exterior the Worldwide Area Station at 4:23 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, lasting 6 hours, 5 minutes.
Kud-Sverchkov and Mikayev completed their main goals, together with gathering two accomplished science experiments and putting in a brand new one. They eliminated a microorganism research from the outside of the Poisk module and retrieved a cassette from the Nauka module containing information on how semiconductor supplies kind in microgravity. The crew additionally put in a tool on the Zvezda service module to measure bursts of photo voltaic radiation from photo voltaic flares.
Through the spacewalk, the duo photographed one among two Kurs rendezvous antennas on the Progress 94 cargo spacecraft that did not deploy following its March launch to the area station. After gathering the imagery, they secured the antenna with a tie‑down for future dynamic operations.
This was the second spacewalk for Kud-Sverchkov and the primary for Mikayev. It additionally was the 279th spacewalk supporting area station meeting, upkeep, and upgrades.
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