Moscow. January 19. INTERFAX - Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov have begun a seven-hour spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS), the first this year.
At 15:20 Moscow time, the cosmonauts opened the exit hatch of the Poisk module on the Russian segment of the ISS and began to get out to the outer surface of the station to perform a number of works on the integration of the new Berth module.
During the exit, Shkaplerov and Dubrovu will have to install and connect the antennas of the Kurs-P passive approach system on the outer surface of the new Russian module, reinstall the TV camera and lay a television cable, mount targets for docking ships and install handrails for the transition between the Nauka and Berth modules.
Also, cosmonauts, if there is time, dismantle the antennas of the active approach system "Course-ON" from the "Berth".
The planned duration of the output is 6 hours and 40 minutes.
The previous spacewalk for the integration of the Nauka module took place on September 9, 2021. The duration of the release was about seven hours. It was reported that the astronauts completed all the main and additional exit tasks. As reported, in total, about 10 spacewalks will be needed to integrate the Nauka module.
