Tag: Spacewalk
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ISS Gets 3 Spacewalks in August for Solar Array Prep
Are NASA’s August Spacewalks About Keeping the ISS Alive or Shutting It Down? Three back-to-back extravehicular activities scheduled for August reveal the ISS in a paradoxical operational moment: NASA is simultaneously installing hardware to expand power capacity and running cable work explicitly tied to the station’s future controlled deorbit. The first of the three EVAs…
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Axiom Space and Prada Unveil Advanced Cooling Garment for Future Moon Missions
Axiom Space and Prada have unveiled a new Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment (LCVG) designed for astronauts who will wear the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit during future lunar missions. The garment serves as the high-performance inner layer of the AxEMU spacesuit and is intended to help astronauts withstand the harsh conditions of the…
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Expedition 74 sees vehicle departures and a spacewalk during March
March was another busy month onboard the International Space Station, with the Expedition 74 crew overseeing three vehicle departures and one arrival. The crew also conducted the first spacewalk of the year, U.S. Spacewalk 94, and talked with the Artemis II crew on April 7 during their return trip from the Moon. Departures, arrivals, and…
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Expedition 73 underway on ISS, crew perform spacewalk
With Expedition 73 now underway, the International Space Station is hosting seven crewmembers again. Thursday saw the astronauts complete the Station’s third spacewalk of the year. The ISS crew is also getting ready for the upcoming arrival of the commercial Axiom-4 mission as well as conducting the usual science and maintenance tasks. Visiting Vehicles The…
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Spacewalks resume from U.S. segment of ISS after six month hiatus
The International Space Station (ISS) kicked off 2025 with a long-awaited return to extravehicular activity (EVA) spacewalk activities from the U.S. segment of the ISS. These spacewalks were sharply curtailed in 2024 due to issues with the aging Space Shuttle-era Extravehicular Mobility Unit suits. Before this latest spacewalk, EVA-90 was the most recent to be…
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SpaceX launches historic Polaris Dawn mission
SpaceX has launched a mission that will not only see humans travel the farthest away from Earth since Apollo 17 in 1972 but also conduct the first-ever commercial spacewalk. This is in addition to nearly 40 different science experiments and an attempt to transmit data from space through the Starlink network. The Polaris Dawn mission,…
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ISS finishes initial iROSA upgrade with two EVAs this month
The International Space Station’s iROSA (ISS Roll-Out Solar Array) solar panel upgrade, started in 2021, has finished its initial upgrade plan with the successful installation of the last two arrays this month. The arrays for the 1A and 1B power channels were brought to ISS aboard the CRS-28 Cargo Dragon flight and then installed in…
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Astronauts install new roll-out solar array outside International Space Station
The fifth roll-out solar array to upgrade the International Space Station’s power system was unfurled during a spacewalk Friday. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now Astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg suited up and floated outside the International Space Station Friday for a spacewalk to install and unroll an upgraded solar array wing delivered to…
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Russian cosmonauts complete spacewalk to relocate experiment airlock
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin work outside the International Space Station on a spacewalk May 3. The European Robotic Arm is seen in this image. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight Now Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin floated outside the International Space Station Wednesday, unbolted an…
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China launches two satellites following EVA at Tiangong station
The Chinese space program has resumed launches after going over a month without a single launch due to the Chinese New Year and Spring Festival holiday period. On Thursday, Feb. 23, at 7:49 PM Beijing time (11:49 UTC), Chang Zheng 3B Y93 flew successfully from pad LC-2 at Xichang in southwest China. This flight, the…