Russian International Space Station cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky went into space for the second time in a month. Broadcast news guide “Roscosmos”.
It should be noted that the Poisk module's hatch was opened at 17:18 Moscow time. The astronauts' primary mission on the second spacewalk was to install a pulsed plasma injector for the Impulse experiment on the Multi-Function Science Laboratory Module. Ryzhkov and Zubritsky will also clean the windows of the laboratory module, replace the cassette in the Ekran-M device and perform work with the ERA controller.
Their estimated time in space was six hours and 28 minutes.
Let us recall that the Russian ISS crew performed their previous spacewalk on October 16. Then, the astronauts successfully installed scientific equipment for experiments in vacuum conditions.
