2023-10-26 11:51:06
MADRID, 26 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub were stained with coolant that escaped from the International Space Station during an external inspection of the Russian Nauka module.
During their 7-hour, 40-minute spacewalk on Oct. 25, Kononenko and Chub inspected and photographed an external reserve radiator in the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module, and also isolated the radiator from Nauka’s cooling system, where it was stored. noticed a coolant leak on October 9. During the radiator inspection, “a coolant bubble was released at the leak site and the crew cleaned their suits before continuing the spacewalk,” NASA reports.
At the end of the spacewalk, before re-entering the Poisk module’s airlock, the two cosmonauts inspected, as usual, their Orlan spacesuits and the tools used during the spacewalk. to look for signs of coolant and clean any coolant as necessary.
The cosmonauts also cleaned their suits and tools as per procedure after repressurization to further reduce the introduction of trace contaminants into the space station environment. “Additional filtration will be used inside the space station to quickly clean the atmosphere of any remaining traces of pollutants“added NASA.
The two cosmonauts also launched a nanosatellite to test solar sail technology; however, nanosatellite solar sail failed to deploy as far as the cameras could track his departure from the station. The cosmonauts also installed a synthetic radar communications system. One of the four panels of the radar system could not be deployed completely during the spacewalk and the work will be postponed to a future date.
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