Cosmonauts launch CubeSat during SpaceWalk outside the ISS on October 25, 2023 🧑🚀🛰️
Cosmonauts launch CubeSat during SpaceWalk outside the ISS on October 25, 2023 🧑🚀🛰️
💿 "Cornfield Chase, (Slowed + Reverb)" - Hanz Zimmer
Expedition 70 SpaceWalk 61:
"The cosmonauts ventured outside and installed a mini radar experiment on Nauka, launched a CubeSat which will test solar sails, and photographed the RTOd radiator and closed valves to isolate the radiator and vented residual coolant so plans can be done to fix a leaking cooling line that delayed two US spacewalks. During one of the vents, Kononenko got sprayed and the coolant got on one of his tethers. The tether was placed in a trash bag and stowed externally to decontaminate it, while Kononenko's suit was wiped down to prevent coolant from entering the station. During the radar deployment, one of the hinges got stuck. The cosmonauts will go out on the next spacewalk with a pole and lock the hinges so it can be deployed. During the satellite deployment, the telescoping booms did not come out and ground controllers are working to manually deploy them so the satellite can track the sun."
Astronauts:
Oleg Kononenko
Nikolai Chub
Time + Date:
October 25, 2023, 17:49 - October 26, 2023, 01:30.
Total Duration of 7 hours 41 minutes.
