NASA To Cover Roscosmos Spacewalk Outside Space Station

NASA will provide live coverage as two Roscosmos cosmonauts conduct a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Wednesday, October 25.

Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev takes a break by posing for the camera while working outside the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module during a six-hour and 37-minute spacewalk to outfit Nauka and configure the European robotic arm on the International Space Station's Russian segment. I Photo: PR Newswire

They will install communications hardware and inspect a portion of the orbital complex.

Coverage will begin at 1:45 p.m. EDT on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency's website. The spacewalk is expected to start at 2:10 p.m. and could last up to seven hours. Expedition 70 cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub will venture outside of the station's Poisk module to perform several tasks.

They will install a synthetic radar communications system and release a nanosatellite to test solar sail technology. While outside the station, they will also inspect and photograph an external backup radiator on the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module, which experienced a coolant leak on October 9.

This spacewalk will be the 268th in support of space station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades. It will be the sixth spacewalk for Kononenko, who will wear the Orlan spacesuit with red stripes, and the first for Chub, who will wear the spacesuit with blue stripes.

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