Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub will perform an EVA removing and installing hardware on the orbital outpost’s Roscosmos segment of the International Space Station, including deployment of one panel on a synthetic radar system and installing equipment and experiments on the Poisk module to analyze the level of corrosion on station surfaces and modules.
The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit. Its first component was launched into orbit in 1998, with the first long-term residents arriving in November 2000. It has been inhabited continuously since that date. The last pressurised module was fitted in 2011, and an experimental inflatable space habitat was added …