Russian cosmonauts Nikolai Chub and Oleg Kononenko began spacewalks. Broadcast on YouTube channel “RoskosmosTV”.
Cosmonauts will need to shut down the faulty radiator circuit where the leak occurred on October 9, as well as launch the Parus-MGTU student satellite and install a radar for a new experiment.
According to the state agency, the exit will take 6 hours and 52 minutes. The exit gate of the Small Research Module “Poisk” opened at 20:49 Moscow time.
If Kononenko and Chub have time after completing the main missions, they will replace the fixing panels in the Zvezda service module.
This ascent was the sixth under the Russian program this year and the first under the current mission of Kononenko and Chub, who arrived at the ISS on September 15 this year.
This is Chub’s first time working outside the ISS, and Kononenko’s sixth time working outside the ISS.
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