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Jonathan McDowell‏Подлинная учетная запись @planet4589 2 мин. назад


Quest airlock hatch is now open

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William Harwood‏ @cbs_spacenews 1 мин. назад

EVA-50: Today's spacewalk is officially underway; Feustel and Arnold switched their suits to battery power at 7:39am; they'll now make their way out of the Quest airlock, set up safety tethers and get to work

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Астронавты в верхнем правом углу...

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2018/05/16/veteran-spacewalkers-begin-excursion-for-station-maintenance/

Veteran Spacewalkers Begin Excursion for Station Maintenance

Mark Garcia
Posted May 16, 2018 at 7:54 am



NASA astronauts Ricky Arnold (left) and Drew Feustel are pictured inside their U.S. spacesuits for a fit check verification ahead of a pair of spacewalks. Norishige Kanai (center), from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, assisted the duo in and out of the spacesuits during the sizing process.

Expedition 55 Flight Engineers Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold of NASA switched their spacesuits to battery power at 8:39 a.m. EDT, signifying the official start of today's planned six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station.

Watch the spacewalk live on NASA Television and the agency's website.

Feustel is wearing the suit bearing the red stripes, and Arnold's suit has no stripes. Views from a camera on Feustel's helmet are designated with the number 17, and Arnold's is labeled with the number 18. Feustel is designated extravehicular crew member 1 (EV1) for this spacewalk, the eighth of his career. Arnold, embarking on his fourth spacewalk, is extravehicular crew member 2 (EV2).

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 7 мин. назад

They are already at the PFCS "Pump and Flow Control Subassembly" worksite. The four PFCS's have official - and in some cases harsh - nicknames.

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EV1 в работе

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EV2


и вид с нашлемной камеры EV1

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 4 мин. назад

Heh, the nicknames are sticking: NASA PAO: "They are now removing the jumper on Frosty...errr, the PFCS"

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/05/16/iss-eva-50/

Spacewalk underway to reposition space station cooling pumps
May 16, 2018 | William Harwood

STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION

Two astronauts worked outside the International Space Station Wednesday to help reposition two spare solar array ammonia coolant pump assemblies, putting a failed unit, dubbed "Leaky," into long-term storage and attaching another, known as "Frosty," to an appendage of the lab's robot arm.

After the spacewalk is over, arm operators at the Johnson Space Center in Houston planned to move Frosty to the P6 solar array segment at the far left end of the station's power truss where it can be plugged in for diagnostics. It will join yet another spare pump flow control sub-assembly, or PFCS, known as "Motley," that is already in place on P6.

The units are designed to help push coolant through solar array batteries to keep them fr om overheating. The appropriately named Frosty has been stored outside the station for nearly 20 years but it once was without heater power for an extended period and engineers are not sure if it's still a viable spare.

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Motley was delivered to the lab complex by a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship earlier this year. As its name might suggest, it is made up of spare parts but it is fully operational and readily available if one of the eight operational PFCS units, one for each solar array set, fails.

But because the station uses eight PFCSs to cool all of the solar array batteries, NASA wants two operational spares available at all times and engineers want to find out whether Frosty is, in fact, operational.

Station commander Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold, floating in the station's Quest airlock, switched their spacesuits to battery power at 7:39 a.m. EDT (GMT-4), officially kicking off a planned 6.5-hour spacewalk.

For identification, Feustel, call sign EV-1, is wearing a suit with red stripes and is using helmet camera 17. This is his eighth spacewalk after six across two shuttle missions and one outside the station earlier this year. Arnold, EV-2, is wearing an unmarked suit and is using helmet cam 18. This is his fourth EVA after two on a shuttle flight and one with Feustel at the station.

Going into the EVA, Frosty was mounted on External Storage Platform No. 1 while Leaky was earlier attached to an appendage of the station's special purpose dexterous manipulator, or DEXTRE, a multi-joint hand-like fitting used by the lab's robot arm.

Leaky will take Frosty's place on ESP-1 where it will remain in long-term storage and Frosty will be attached to DEXTRE. After the spacewalk is over, flight controllers will use the arm to move Frosty out to the P6 solar array truss segment where it can be plugged in for power and telemetry.

"The purpose of a PFCS, a pump flow control sub-assembly, is all about the cooling of the batteries the space station holds its electrical power in," said Anthony Vareha, the spacewalk flight director at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

"We've got the eight big solar arrays you've seen on space station, each of those has some batteries, we need to keep the batteries cool just like in your cell phone. We do that with an ammonia cooling loop. We pump the ammonia through a radiator and out through the batteries, cools them off."

More than 15 years ago, Frosty lost heater power because of an unrelated problem elsewh ere in the station.

"As a result, the worry is that pump got a little bit cold and henceforth, it was named 'Frosty.' We are going to swap Frosty out to the shelf on P6 so we can plug it in, we can actually get data from it and make sure it is, indeed, a healthy pump. That tells us do we have a good spare there or not."

Feustel and Arnold also plan to replace a standard definition camera, its light and its pan-and-tilt mechanism.

With the spacewalk out of the way, the station crew will turn its attention the launch Sunday of an Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo ship from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Island, Va., facility. The cargo ship is expected to arrive at the station on May 24.

The astronauts will help with initial unloading before Soyuz MS-07/53S commander Anton Shkaplerov, Scott Tingle and Norishige Kanai pack up for re-entry and landing June 3 to close out a 168-day mission. Feustel, Arnold and Soyuz MS-08/54S commander Oleg Artemyev will have the station to themselves until three fresh crew members arrive June 8.

After the new crew — Soyuz MS-09/55S commander Sergey Prokopyev, veteran European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA flight surgeon Serena Aūnón-Chancellor — arrives, another spacewalk is planned by Feustel and Arnold on June 14 to install cameras on the front of the station to monitor arrivals and departures of commercial crew ships being built by Boeing and SpaceX.

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Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 8 мин. назад

Two Americans and a Canadian (Dextre) at work with "Frosty" and "Leaky", over 200 miles above the Earth.