Spacewalk terminated soon after battery problem in Russian cosmonaut fit
A Russian spacewalker had to hurry back inside the International Room Station on Wednesday when the battery voltage in his spacesuit abruptly dropped.
Russian Mission Management ordered Oleg Artemyev, the station commander, to promptly return to the airlock so he could hook his fit to station ability. The hatch remained open as his spacewalking lover, Denis Matveev, tidied up outside the house.
NASA mentioned neither gentleman was at any time in any risk. Matveev, in reality, remained outdoors for yet another hour or so, in advance of he, far too, was purchased to wrap it up. Matveev’s match was fine, but Russian Mission Handle lower the spacewalk brief considering that flight regulations insist on the buddy program.
The cosmonauts managed to put in cameras on the European Space Agency’s new robot arm ahead of the issues cropped up, barely two hrs into a prepared 6 1/2-hour spacewalk.
“You know, the start off was so excellent,” Matveev mentioned as he manufactured his way back again inside of, with some of the robot arm installation function remaining undone.
https://www.youtube.com/check out?v=M64Nn1TAa-s
The 36-foot (11-meter) robot arm arrived at the area station very last summer months aboard a Russian lab.
NASA spacewalks, meanwhile, have been on maintain for months.
In March, h2o seeped into a German spacewalker’s helmet. It was not approximately as significantly leakage as happened in 2013 when an Italian astronaut almost drowned, but nevertheless posed a safety worry. In the earlier circumstance, the h2o originated from the cooling program in the suit’s undergarments.
The spacesuit that malfunctioned in March will be returned to Earth as early as this week in a SpaceX capsule, for even more investigation.
A Russian spacewalker had to hurry back inside the International Room Station on Wednesday when the battery voltage in his spacesuit abruptly dropped.
Russian Mission Management ordered Oleg Artemyev, the station commander, to promptly return to the airlock so he could hook his fit to station ability. The hatch remained open as his spacewalking lover, Denis Matveev, tidied up outside the house.
NASA mentioned neither gentleman was at any time in any risk. Matveev, in reality, remained outdoors for yet another hour or so, in advance of he, far too, was purchased to wrap it up. Matveev’s match was fine, but Russian Mission Handle lower the spacewalk brief considering that flight regulations insist on the buddy program.
The cosmonauts managed to put in cameras on the European Space Agency’s new robot arm ahead of the issues cropped up, barely two hrs into a prepared 6 1/2-hour spacewalk.
“You know, the start off was so excellent,” Matveev mentioned as he manufactured his way back again inside of, with some of the robot arm installation function remaining undone.
https://www.youtube.com/check out?v=M64Nn1TAa-s
The 36-foot (11-meter) robot arm arrived at the area station very last summer months aboard a Russian lab.
NASA spacewalks, meanwhile, have been on maintain for months.
In March, h2o seeped into a German spacewalker’s helmet. It was not approximately as significantly leakage as happened in 2013 when an Italian astronaut almost drowned, but nevertheless posed a safety worry. In the earlier circumstance, the h2o originated from the cooling program in the suit’s undergarments.
The spacesuit that malfunctioned in March will be returned to Earth as early as this week in a SpaceX capsule, for even more investigation.