Two Russian cosmonautsengineers Oleg Artemiev and Dennis Matveev of the Roscosmos space agency, carried out the first of two space “walks” to activate the new 11.3 meters long European robotic arm that will serve him International Space Station (DSS).
THE “walk» lasted almost seven hours and was crowned with success. A second “walk” will follow on April 28 to remove the protective cover of the new arm and check its mobility.
The arm (European Robotic Arm-ERA), which can carry a weight of up to about 7,800 kg, had traveled to the SSR since July 2021, but so far had not been activated. It will be used, as reported by the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency, for the transport of heavy objects and will assist astronauts in their future work outside the SSC. The operation of the arm can be done both from the inside and from the outside of the DSS.
THE European Space Agency (ESA) announced that the new robotic arm will operate outside the Russian part of the SSR, which until now was not well served by the two existing arms, one made in Canada and one in Japan (Canadarm2 and JEMRMS respectively), as the latter did not can be expanded so as to cover all external areas of the Russian part of the SSR.
The new space “walk” was the fourth for Artemiev and the first for Matveev. It was also the fourth “walk” outside the SAA in 2022.
THE US Space Agency (NASA) has assured that, despite the war in Ukraine, coexistence with Russian cosmonauts is smooththe climate at DSS is very friendly and the cooperation is evolving without any problems.
Source: News Beast
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