Tag: EVA
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Russian duo complete EVA-35 – Luca recalls EVA drama
Expedition 36 Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin have completed their second spacewalk in the space of a week, as preparations continue for the arrival of the next Russian module. Meanwhile, Luca Parmitano has recalled the drama of his aborted spacewalk when liquid started to fill his helmet during EVA-23 last month. EVA-35/RS-35: Thursday’s…
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Russian EVA breaks record – EMU troubleshooting continues
Expedition 36 Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin have completed the first of two spacewalks to prepare the International Space Station (ISS) for the arrival of the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM). Their extended EVA broke the spacewalk duration record for a Russian spacewalk. Meanwhile, the investigation into the leak in Luca Parmitano’s spacesuit…
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Progress M-20M arrives at ISS with spacesuit repair tools
Russia’s Progress M-20M spacecraft, known in NASA’s numbering scheme as Progress 52 (52P), launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:45 PM GMT on Saturday. The spacecraft then dock to the ISS just six hours later, delivering some vital spacesuit repair tools to the station crew. Progress M-20M: Following liftoff from the Baikonur…
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NASA team close in on root cause of Luca’s leaking EMU
NASA’s Anomaly Resolution Team (ART) are continuing to investigate the cause of the water leak that terminated EVA-23 last week. Evaluations on Luca Parmitano suit have ruled out numerous root causes, with the remaining credible failure sources all in the PLSS (Portable Life Support Unit), with a sublimator, the gas trap, an I-134 filter clog…
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EVA-23 terminated due to Parmitano EMU issue
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano were hard at work outside the International Space Station (ISS) for the second time in only a week. However, the EVA was terminated, when water started to leak into Parmitano’s space suit helmet, immediately resulting in the duo heading back to the Quest Airlock. Previous EVA:…
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EVA-22: Cassidy and Parmitano complete ISS spacewalk
Expedition 36 Flight Engineers Chris Cassidy of NASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency have completed the first of two key EVAs on the outside of the International Space Station (ISS). The spacewalks are laying the foundations for the arrival of the Russian Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM) at the end of the year.…
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Russian duo complete ambitious ISS spacewalk
Highly experienced Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and debut spacewalker Alexander Misurkin conducted an EVA lasting over six hours on the outside of the International Space Station on Monday. The duo conducted a large array of tasks, including the replacement of a fluid flow regulator on the Russian segment’s Zarya module. Russian EVA 33 – Refer…
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Successful EVA likely to have resolved ammonia leak
Spacewalkers Chris Cassidy (EV-1) and Tom Marshburn (EV-2) ventured outside of the Quest Airlock on Saturday, in search of the source of an ammonia leak. The duo investigated the cooling loop of power channel 2B on the P6 Truss of the Station, and while the system appeared to be clean, the installation of a new…
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Ammonia leak on ISS prompts contingency spacewalks
A sudden increase in a previously small ammonia leak in the coolant lines of a power channel on the outside of the International Space Station (ISS) has prompted ground teams to enter into a state of rapid investigations and replanning, in order to stop the ammonia from leaking away into space as soon as is…
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Cosmonauts successfully conclude Russian spacewalk
Two Russian cosmonauts have been hard at work outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, conducting a spacewalk for the purposes of routine maintenance on the Russian Segment (RS). The spacewalk, known as Russian Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA)-32, got underway at 2:03 PM GMT and lasted over six and half hours. EVA procedures: The…