2023-04-19 09:19:20
Astronauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin decided to go into space to move a radiator between modules of the International Space Station (ISS).
On April 19, two Russian cosmonauts made the first spacewalk in 2023, following the depressurization incident on the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft (Russia).
According to the RIA Novosti news agency, cosmonauts Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin decided to go into space to move a radiator between modules of the International Space Station (ISS).
This is astronaut Petelin’s second spacewalk and Prokopyev’s fourth spacewalk.
The astronauts performed the task of disconnecting the electrical cable between the radiant heat exchanger and a module called “Zarya,” unplugging the heatsink, then opening the four locks that linked the radiator to module.
Previously, the spacewalk plan on December 14, 2022 of two Russian cosmonauts had to be canceled at the last minute.
On December 15, 2022, the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) confirmed that the spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) by two Russian cosmonauts had been canceled due to reasons. technique.
An expert at Russia’s Mission Control Center (MCC) said that the plan was canceled because an unidentified substance was detected from the stern of the Soyuz spacecraft docked with the ISS. However, the inside of the Soyuz spacecraft is still safe.
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