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China’s Shenzhou-19 crew carried out their first house strolling duties exterior the Tiangong house station. In doing so, they set a brand new file all through EVAs by Chinese language astronauts, stated the China Manned House Company (CMSA).
Lasting 9 hours, the Tuesday stroll was the longest among the many 17 EVAs up to now carried out in China’s human spaceflight program.
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China launched the Shenzhou-19 crewed spaceship on October 30, sending three astronauts — Cai Xuzhe, Track Lingdong and Wang Haoze – to the orbiting outpost.
Particles shielding set up
Cai and Track had been assigned the EVA duties, whereas Wang assisted the skin twosome from contained in the house station. It marked Cai’s third EVA in house, following his two spacewalks throughout his Shenzhou-14 mission within the second half of 2022.
Wang Haoze assisted EVA crew from contained in the house station.
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One central spacewalk process was putting in particles shielding.
“The set up of the protecting panels this time is principally to guard the cables and pipelines of the thermal management tools exterior the Tianhe module from particles,” stated Meng Lingzi, a staffer of the China Aerospace Science and Know-how Company.
“Through the growth part, the bottom researchers performed a full-process simulation verification of your entire process. The visibility, accessibility, and operability had been all verified by means of ergonomic evaluations and underwater assessments,” defined Meng in an interview with China Central Tv (CCTV).
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Robotic arm
Given the dispersed set up places of the safety gadgets on the station, the 2 astronauts carried out the duty with one utilizing the robotic arm whereas the opposite climbed exterior the station to help.
Through the 9 hours, the Shenzhou-19 crew additionally carried out different duties, akin to inspecting extravehicular tools and services.
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The Shenzhou-19 crew is ready to hold out a slew of scheduled space-science experiments and technical assessments, whereas they may even undertake further extravehicular actions and set up payloads exterior the house station, in accordance with the CMSA.
Despatched to the station for a six-month tour of responsibility, the Shenzhou-19 crew is predicted to return to Earth in late April or early Could.
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