Two Russian cosmonauts, Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev, took a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to activate a new robotic arm. The cosmonauts’ mission has been going on for about six hours. Spacewalk, on NASA’s website Live broadcast and video of the event It was shared on the International Space Station’s official Twitter account.

Russian cosmonauts on the spacewalk 11.3 meter long robot arm They installed and connected a control panel for the nauka module, then removed the arm guards and attached a handrail to the outside of the nauka module. The cosmonauts continue their studies and are almost done with their work.

Russian cosmonauts’ spacewalk goes live

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In the video cosmonaut Artemyev in a red striped Russian Orlan spacesuit and cosmonaut Matveev in a blue striped spacesuit. This job is the job of Matveev first spacewalk and senior Artemyev fourth spacewalk it happened.

This robotic arm, the task of cosmonauts, is to help other astronauts and cosmonauts and help the space station in the future. of the Russian segment It is used to carry any item that needs to be moved outside. This mission was the fourth spacewalk outside the space station and involved the assembly, maintenance and upgrade of the orbiting laboratory in total. It was the 249th of March†

the same cosmonauts They will do another spacewalk on April 28. and this time they will remove the thermal blankets used to protect the robot arm. Matveev and Artemyev will also bend the robotic arm’s joints, release constraints and test gripper capacity.

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