NASA astronauts Frank Rubio and Josh Cassada at the moment are scheduled to start a spacewalk at 8:30 a.m. EST Thursday to enhance the Worldwide House Station’s energy era system. Wednesday’s spacewalk was postponed for twenty-four hours in order that the orbiting lab’s ISS Progress 81 cargo craft might fireplace its engines at 8:42 a.m. to maneuver the station and keep away from an approaching piece of rocket particles.
Spacewalkers Rubio and Cassada will set up one other roll-out photo voltaic array, often known as an Worldwide House Station Roll-Out Photo voltaic Array (iROSA), on the house station’s truss construction. This time the duo will maneuver to the other aspect of the station and set up the fourth iROSA on the Port-4 truss construction. The exterior set up job will final about seven hours and broadcast dwell on NASA TV on the company’s app and its web site.
Expedition 68 Flight Engineers Nicole Mann of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Company (JAXA) will function the Canadarm2 robotic arm to assist the spacewalkers through the fine-tuned iROSA set up job. The duo may even help Rubio and Cassada out and in of their spacesuits, often known as Extravehicular Mobility Models (EMUs), within the Quest airlock earlier than and after their spacewalk.
Whereas Thursday’s spacewalk is beneath means, NASA house station program supervisor Joel Montalbano and Roscosmos human spaceflight government director Sergei Krikalev will maintain an audio-only media teleconference 11 a.m. The 2 house executives will talk about the continued investigation of an exterior leak detected on the Soyuz MS-22 crew ship on a dwell audio name streaming on NASA’s web site at https://www.nasa.gov/dwell.
The three cosmonauts representing Expedition 68, Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin and Anna Kikina, stayed targeted on lab upkeep servicing and cleansing a range station {hardware} right this moment.
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