ISS Cosmonauts Ready May 27 Spacewalk to Install Solar Radiation Experiment at 10:15 a.m. EDT
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Updated · NASA · May 26
ISS Cosmonauts Ready May 27 Spacewalk to Install Solar Radiation Experiment at 10:15 a.m. EDT
11 articles · Updated · NASA · May 26
Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev completed their task review and finalized tools for a Wednesday spacewalk from the Poisk airlock, with NASA+ coverage starting at 9:45 a.m. EDT.
The pair’s main job is to install a new experiment that will track the Sun’s terahertz radiation during solar flares and coronal mass ejections, while also removing older external hardware.
Andrey Fedyaev will support the outing from inside the Nauka module, using the European robotic arm to help retrieve a Biorisk container holding biological samples exposed outside the station.
The spacewalk follows a busy stretch of ISS external science work: controllers used Canadarm2 over the weekend to install the CLARREO Pathfinder on the port truss after Dragon delivered it on May 17.
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