Two astronauts will do some restore work exterior the Worldwide Area Station right this moment (Aug. 25), and you may watch the motion stay.
NASA’s Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot of the European Space Agency will conduct a spacewalk right this moment (Aug. 25) to interchange a space-to-ground-antenna. The extravehicular exercise (EVA) is predicted to begin round 8:35 a.m. EDT (1235 GMT) and final 6.5 hours.
You may watch it stay right here at Area.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the space agency. Protection will begin at 7:00 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT).
This would be the third spacewalk for Menon and the second for Adenot, the primary French lady ever to conduct an EVA. Her history-making first tour occurred on Aug. 18, when she and Menon eliminated a failed space-to-ground antenna, a relay hyperlink that permits high-speed communications between the International Space Station (ISS) and Mission Management at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The duo ran out of time earlier than they may set up a alternative antenna, nevertheless. They will end the job right this moment, if all goes to plan.
“If time permits, Menon and Adenot additionally will try a get‑forward activity to interchange a retroreflector on the ahead port of the house station’s Concord module, which can enhance navigation information for visiting spacecraft,” NASA officers wrote in a spacewalk preview.
Adenot arrived on the ISS in February as a part of SpaceX’s Crew-12 mission, which additionally contains NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
Menon got here aboard on July 14, making the journey on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft together with cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina. Menon carried out his first-ever spacewalk on Aug. 6, with Meir.
Menon will probably be “crewmember 1” on right this moment’s spacewalk, and Adenot will probably be “crewmember 2.” The EVA would be the 283rd within the historical past of the ISS, which has been repeatedly occupied by rotating astronaut crews since November 2000.
