May 21, 2021
Categories: ISS

On June 2, 2021, the crew of the Russian segment of the International Space Station, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov will perform a spacewalk to work on the outer surface of the station.

The crew will exit the Poisk Mini-Research Module 2 hatch at 05:40 UTC. The spacewalk’s planned duration is expected at 6 hours 50 minutes.

The main tasks of EVA-48:

  • Fluid flow regulator removable panel replacement;
  • Installation of the necessary equipment for ‘Test’ and ‘Endurance’ space scientific experiments on the outer surface of the Poisk module;
  • Connecting the Kurs system antennas on the transition compartment to ensure the docking of the new Russian Nauka module.
More from this category:
February 5, 2016

ISS-47/48 crew going to space in March started passing preflight training in GCTC. The prime crew comprises Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka and…

full story
September 18, 2014

On September 17 Baikonur saw traditional “mass media day”. The journalists got the opportunity to see one day in the cosmonauts’ life at Baikonur spaceport…

full story
January 21, 2014

According to training program on January 20-31 GCTC will conduct autonomous complex survival training on actions in case of off-nominnal landing on marshy and forested…

full story
May 5, 2021

The Baikonur Cosmodrome is preparing to launch the next batch of the OneWeb satellite company spacecraft. In accordance with the comprehensive preparations schedule, the specialists…

full story
November 8, 2013

A Russian Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft carrying a three-man crew and a symbolic torch for next year’s Sochi Winter Olympic Games on Thursday docked with the…

full story
July 27, 2020

At the Baikonur cosmodrome, continues work on preparations for the launch of the Proton-M carrier rocket with the Briz-M upper stage and the Russian Express-103…

full story
June 14, 2013

Russian Molnia military communication satellite set into the orbit about 10 years ago will enter dense layers of atmosphere on Friday, June 14,2013, – Space…

full story
October 29, 2015

On Wednesday Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems started implementing unique Moon-2015 project. According to this project 6 women will spend 8 days in closed space…

full story