Watch the video above: Two Russian cosmonauts perform a spacewalk outside the International Space Station.
TORONTO – Russian cosmonauts are conducting a six-and-a-half hour spacewalk to deploy a satellite, as well as conduct other scientific missions.
Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev ventured out of the International Space Station at 10:02 EDT Monday morning.
Artemyev deployed a nanosatellite designed to take photographs of Earth. The satellite – from the National University of Engineering in Peru – is equipped with two cameras that will transmit the images to a ground station.
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They also will affix a handrail clamp holder for an antenna the pair installed on the Zvezda module on June 19, and an experiment package that includes two astrobiology studies designed to study biomaterials and extremophiles – organisms that can survive in harsh, seemingly uninhabitable environments.
On top of those duties, the pair have several other tasks to perform including setting up an instrument and retrieving other science experiments.
This is the 181st spacewalk on the station. You can watch the spacewalk on NASA TV.
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