Spacewalkers Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev set up brand-new robotic arm elements on the Nauka multiupurpose lab module. Credit: NASA
Expedition 67 Flight Engineers Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev of Roscosmos concluded their spacewalk at 5: 37 p.m. EDT today after 6 hours and 37 minutes. Russian spacewalk 52 started at 11: 01 a.m. EDT to trigger a brand-new robotic arm connected to the Nauka multipurpose lab module at theInternational Space Station by opening the hatch of the Poisk docking compartment airlock.
Russian cosmonauts Artemyev and Matveev finished their significant goals for today in which they set up and linked a control board for the European robotic arm, a 37- foot-long manipulator system installed to the just recently shown up Nauka multipurpose lab module. They likewise got rid of protective covers from the arm and set up hand rails onNauka The arm will be utilized to move spacewalkers and payloads around the Russian sector of the station.
Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Alexander Skvortsov are imagined throughout a spacewalk in 2014 outside the spaceport station’s Russian sector. Credit: NASA
For this spacewalk, Artemyev was using a Russian Orlan spacesuit with red stripes. Matveev was using a spacesuit with blue stripes. It was the 4th spacewalk in Artemyev’s profession, and the very first forMatveev It will be the 4th spacewalk at the station in 2022 and the 249 th spacewalk for spaceport station assembly, upkeep, and upgrades.
During the next Russian spacewalk set up for Thursday, April 28, the duo will reject thermal blankets utilized to safeguard the arm throughout its July 2021 launch withNauka They will likewise bend the arm’s joints, release launch restraints, and keep an eye on the arm’s capability to utilize 2 grapple components.
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev works outside the International Space Station throughout a spacewalk that occurred in 2014 when he was an Expedition 40 FlightEngineer Credit: NASA
Additional spacewalks are prepared to continue equipping the European robotic arm and to trigger Nauka’s airlock for future spacewalks.
