Cosmonauts Complete Fourth Expedition 38 Spacewalk
By Space Coast Daily // January 27, 2014
installed a pair of high-fidelity cameras
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NASA – International Space Station Expedition 38 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) completed a 6-hour, 8-minute spacewalk at 3:08 p.m. EST.
The spacewalkers installed a pair of high-fidelity cameras on a platform attached to the Zvezda Service Module. The cameras are part of a commercial endeavor between the Russian Federal Space Agency and a Canadian firm involving the downlink of Earth imagery.
Russian flight controllers at the Mission Control Center in Korolev, outside of Moscow, confirmed they are receiving good data from the high resolution camera; however, engineers are continuing to investigate the cause of intermittent data acquisition from the medium-resolution camera.
During the first attempt to install these cameras on Dec. 27, flight controllers were unable to receive information from either of the cameras. While outside the orbiting complex, Kotov and Ryazanskiy also retrieved an experiment package housed on Zvezda’s hull.
This was the 178th spacewalk in support of space station assembly and maintenance, totaling 1,121 hours, 52 minutes. Kotov’s six spacewalks total 36 hours, 51 minutes. Ryazanskiy’s three spacewalks total 20 hours, 05 minutes.
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