Russian cosmonauts comprehensive station spacewalk to ready radiator for shift
Two elements of the Russian facet of the International Place Station are a stage nearer to getting robotically relocated after two cosmonauts concluded a spacewalk to get ready the items for their transfer.
Expedition 68 commander Sergey Prokopyev and flight engineer Dmitry Petelin, both of the Russian federal house company Roscosmos, done a six hour, 25 moment EVA (extravehicular exercise) on Thursday (Nov. 17) to prepared an airlock and radiator for their transfer from just one Russian module to one more. The components had been launched to the station 12 years ago aboard a NASA area shuttle and are now being repositioned to assist a more recent module.
Prokopyev and Petelin exited the station’s room-struggling with Poisk module at 9:39 a.m. EST (1439 GMT) to begin the 1st of four planned spacewalks in assist of the moves. The cosmonauts’ do the job was mainly focused on releasing the radiator, which is employed to dissipate warmth and is set to be moved robotically during the following EVA scheduled for Nov. 25.
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The spacewalkers commenced their responsibilities by putting in an adapter on what is referred to as a flight-releasable grapple fixture on the airlock now connected to Russia’s Rassvet mini-investigate module on the Earth-going through aspect of the station. They next maneuvered and opened up valves in order to vent nitrogen in the hydraulic loops that have supported a radiator also housed on the exterior of Rassvet.
Finishing that function in prompt style and without issues, Prokopyev and Petelin turned their notice to eradicating six radiator restraints that have been in place because the element was introduced with Rassvet aboard on the room shuttle Atlantis’ STS-132 mission in 2010. The two also mounted a retainer on the Strela growth — an extension made use of by spacewalkers to transfer involving modules — so that a foot restraint and other tools can be mounted in guidance of the radiator’s relocation system.
Prokopyev and Petelin’s final key job of the spacewalk was to set up a “significant item attachment method” on the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module, the place the airlock will be hooked up through an EVA that is scheduled for Dec. 6, two spacewalks from present day outing. In the course of the set up, there was talk of utilizing a hammer to knock the panel into area.
“It seems to be like we are not going to have to have the hammer,” mentioned Prokopyev.
“Indeed, seems like we are lucky and the hammer will never be wanted,” replied Petelin.
“Perfectly, I was all fired up about hammering absent in place!” Prokopyev replied.
“Very well, you know, next 7 days, future EVA, we will be getting rid of the plug and demating the outdated radiator, so we are heading to consider all equipment accessible with us. So you may perhaps however get the chance,” explained Petelin.
Expedition 68 flight engineer Anna Kikina, the only lady in Roscosmos’ active cosmonaut corps, is scheduled to relocate both of those the airlock and radiator employing the not too long ago-extra 36-foot-very long (11 meters) European robotic arm from a regulate panel positioned inside of the place station.
Prokopyev and Petelin reentered the space station at 4:07 p.m. EST (2107 GMT).
Thursday’s EVA was the 3rd for Prokopyev and the initial for Petelin. Prokopyev has now logged 21 hours and 56 minutes on his three spacewalks.
The EVA was the 10th for the 12 months, the 2nd of at least 7 planned for the Intercontinental Space Station’s present-day Expedition 68 mission and the 255th due to the fact 1998 in aid of assembly and upkeep of the ISS.
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Two elements of the Russian facet of the International Place Station are a stage nearer to getting robotically relocated after two cosmonauts concluded a spacewalk to get ready the items for their transfer.
Expedition 68 commander Sergey Prokopyev and flight engineer Dmitry Petelin, both of the Russian federal house company Roscosmos, done a six hour, 25 moment EVA (extravehicular exercise) on Thursday (Nov. 17) to prepared an airlock and radiator for their transfer from just one Russian module to one more. The components had been launched to the station 12 years ago aboard a NASA area shuttle and are now being repositioned to assist a more recent module.
Prokopyev and Petelin exited the station’s room-struggling with Poisk module at 9:39 a.m. EST (1439 GMT) to begin the 1st of four planned spacewalks in assist of the moves. The cosmonauts’ do the job was mainly focused on releasing the radiator, which is employed to dissipate warmth and is set to be moved robotically during the following EVA scheduled for Nov. 25.
Similar: The most memorable spacewalks of all time in pics
The spacewalkers commenced their responsibilities by putting in an adapter on what is referred to as a flight-releasable grapple fixture on the airlock now connected to Russia’s Rassvet mini-investigate module on the Earth-going through aspect of the station. They next maneuvered and opened up valves in order to vent nitrogen in the hydraulic loops that have supported a radiator also housed on the exterior of Rassvet.
Finishing that function in prompt style and without issues, Prokopyev and Petelin turned their notice to eradicating six radiator restraints that have been in place because the element was introduced with Rassvet aboard on the room shuttle Atlantis’ STS-132 mission in 2010. The two also mounted a retainer on the Strela growth — an extension made use of by spacewalkers to transfer involving modules — so that a foot restraint and other tools can be mounted in guidance of the radiator’s relocation system.
Prokopyev and Petelin’s final key job of the spacewalk was to set up a “significant item attachment method” on the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module, the place the airlock will be hooked up through an EVA that is scheduled for Dec. 6, two spacewalks from present day outing. In the course of the set up, there was talk of utilizing a hammer to knock the panel into area.
“It seems to be like we are not going to have to have the hammer,” mentioned Prokopyev.
“Indeed, seems like we are lucky and the hammer will never be wanted,” replied Petelin.
“Perfectly, I was all fired up about hammering absent in place!” Prokopyev replied.
“Very well, you know, next 7 days, future EVA, we will be getting rid of the plug and demating the outdated radiator, so we are heading to consider all equipment accessible with us. So you may perhaps however get the chance,” explained Petelin.
Expedition 68 flight engineer Anna Kikina, the only lady in Roscosmos’ active cosmonaut corps, is scheduled to relocate both of those the airlock and radiator employing the not too long ago-extra 36-foot-very long (11 meters) European robotic arm from a regulate panel positioned inside of the place station.
Prokopyev and Petelin reentered the space station at 4:07 p.m. EST (2107 GMT).
Thursday’s EVA was the 3rd for Prokopyev and the initial for Petelin. Prokopyev has now logged 21 hours and 56 minutes on his three spacewalks.
The EVA was the 10th for the 12 months, the 2nd of at least 7 planned for the Intercontinental Space Station’s present-day Expedition 68 mission and the 255th due to the fact 1998 in aid of assembly and upkeep of the ISS.
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