Roscosmos Cosmonauts Begin 5-Hour ISS Spacewalk to Install Experiment and Inspect Failed Antenna
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Updated · Space.com · May 27
Roscosmos Cosmonauts Begin 5-Hour ISS Spacewalk to Install Experiment and Inspect Failed Antenna
8 articles · Updated · Space.com · May 27
Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev are set to start a roughly five-hour spacewalk at 1415 GMT outside the International Space Station.
The pair will install a solar-radiation experiment on the Zvezda module and remove science hardware from the Poisk and Nauka modules on the Russian segment.
If time permits, they will also photograph a Kurs rendezvous antenna on the Progress 94 cargo craft that failed to deploy after its March launch.
The outing is Mikaev's first EVA and Kud-Sverchkov's second, marking the ISS' second spacewalk of 2026 and the 278th overall in station history.
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