Tag: EVA
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EVA-55 installs second IDA to allow for additional commercial crew vehicle options
The latest spacewalk on the International Space Station (ISS) has completed the huge milestone of adding a second docking port for Commercial Crew vehicles. Expedition 60 Flight Engineers Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan worked a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk to install International Docking Adapter-3 (IDA-3) to Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 on the space-facing side of the station’s Harmony…
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Russian spacewalkers complete VKD-46 – pay tribute to Leonov
Oleg Kononenko and Alexey Ovchinin have completed their spacewalk, titled VKD-46 on Wednesday. The duo installed handrails on the Russian segment, retrieved science experiments from the Poisk module and conduct maintenance work – including the jettison of four payloads. They opened the EVA with a tribute to the first man to walk in space, Alexei Leonov,…
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Following ISS battery upgrade, EVA-54 works on power systems
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have now completed the third of a trio of spacewalks to continue the ongoing program to replace the station’s aging batteries and upgrade power systems. The spacewalks were originally deferred from last year due to the impacts associated with the aborted Soyuz MS-10 launch. EVA-52 was completed last…
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Russian EVA examines hole repair area on Soyuz MS-09
A unique spacewalk was conducted on Tuesday, as two Russian cosmonauts examined a hole that was found in the orbital module of the Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft. Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev were tasked with cutting through the insulation of the Soyuz spacecraft to take photos and collect samples, ahead of its upcoming return to Earth later…
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Russian conduct epic CKD-45 ISS spacewalk
Expedition 56 Flight Engineers Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos egressed the Pirs airlock at around 12:17 p.m. EDT on the latest International Space Station spacewalk, which was supposed to last just six hours, but lasted nearly eight hours in duration. Designated VKD-45 (or RS-45), Artemyev and Prokopyev manually launched four small technology satellites,…
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US Spacewalkers Feustel and Arnold complete EVA double
Expedition 55 Flight Engineers Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold stepped outside of the International Space Station for the second of two related EVAs, completing the primary objectives of upgrading cooling system hardware and installing new and updated communications equipment for future dockings of commercial crew spacecraft. The first spacewalk (EVA-50) was completed last month ahead…
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US Spacewalkers Feustel and Arnold complete EVA double
Expedition 55 Flight Engineers Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold stepped outside of the International Space Station for the second of two related EVAs, completing the primary objectives of upgrading cooling system hardware and installing new and updated communications equipment for future dockings of commercial crew spacecraft. The first spacewalk (EVA-50) was completed last month ahead…
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EVA-49 – spacewalkers complete ISS upgrading tasks
Expedition 55 Flight Engineers Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold have conducted a spacewalk on Thursday, tasked with the installation of wireless communications equipment, swap out high-definition video cameras on the port truss of the station’s backbone and remove aging hoses from a cooling component on the station’s truss. EVA-49 was set to begin at 8:10…
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Spacewalkers complete spacewalk robotic maintenance with EVA-48
The final EVA to complete an upgrade to the Space Station’s robotic arm’s end effector has been completed. EVA-48 was conducted by Expedition 54 Flight Engineers Mark Vande Hei of NASA and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. This EVA was originally delayed after the previous spacewalk, EVA-47, included a software issue that…
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Russian spacewalk breaks endurance record via new antenna system installation
Cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Alexander Misurkin have – during Russian EVA-44 – installed a new high gain antenna electronics box on the rear of the Zvezda service module. The duo left the Pirs model at 15:34 UTC for a spacewalk that was expected to last six and a half hours. However, this lasted over eight hours…