Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin completed the third in a series of three spacewalks devoted to outfitting a module with equipment launched with another 13 years ago.
After opening the airlock hatch on the Poisk module at 11:47 a.m. EDT and exiting the station, Prokopyev and Petelin made their way to the Nauka module to remove the remaining restraints holding the radiator closed. As the bolts were loosened, the radiator began to unfold to its full length.
With the hardware in place, the two spacewalkers set about opening the first set of valves to begin loading the radiator with coolant fluid, a process that in total was estimated to take about two hours. Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin work to deploy a radiator for the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module during a spacewalk at the International Space Station on Friday, May 12, 2023.
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