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Summarize this content to 100 words The Russian crew of the ISS tested the European Robotic Arm (ERA). On August 9, cosmonaut Andriy Fedyaev used a manipulator to transfer his colleague Serhiy Prokopyev to the “Science” module. Work in outer space began on August 9 at 5:45 p.m. Moscow time. The main task for the cosmonauts was to move the portable workplace from the “Dawn” module to the “Science” module. Cosmonaut Dmytro Petelin helped Serhii Prokopiev to secure himself at a portable workplace on the outer surface of the Nauka module, after which Fedyaev “performed a test transfer of a crew member in open space” using the ERA manipulator. The workplace was then installed on the “Science” module.The cosmonauts also installed additional micrometeoroid protection screens on the Svitanok module in the places vacated after the transfer of the additional radiation heat exchanger and airlock chamber to the Nauka. Work in outer space lasted 6 hours and 34 minutes. This was Russia’s 70th (60th planned) exit under the ISS project and the fifth in 2023. For Serhiy Prokopyev, it became the eighth exit in his space career, for Dmytro Petelin – the sixth.The German robotic manipulator ERA, produced by the Fokker Space company, belongs to the regular maintenance equipment of the “Science” module. It acts as the main manipulator for the Russian segment of the station and is used to install and remove the target load on the surface of the station, as well as to check its condition and to move cosmonauts.Roscosmos published a broadcast of the spacewalk on August 9, 2023. Serhiy Prokopiev is in Orlan-ISS spacesuit No. 5 with red stripes, Dmytro Petelin is in Orlan-ISS No. 4 with blue stripes.
The Russian crew of the ISS tested the transfer of an astronaut by a manipulator in open space
The Russian crew of the ISS tested the European Robotic Arm (ERA). On August 9, cosmonaut Andriy Fedyaev used a manipulator to transfer his colleague Serhiy Prokopyev to the “Science” module.
Work in outer space began on August 9 at 5:45 p.m. Moscow time. The main task for the cosmonauts was to move the portable workplace from the “Dawn” module to the “Science” module. Cosmonaut Dmytro Petelin helped Serhii Prokopiev to secure himself at a portable workplace on the outer surface of the Nauka module, after which Fedyaev “performed a test transfer of a crew member in open space” using the ERA manipulator. The workplace was then installed on the “Science” module.
The cosmonauts also installed additional micrometeoroid protection screens on the Svitanok module in the places vacated after the transfer of the additional radiation heat exchanger and airlock chamber to the Nauka. Work in outer space lasted 6 hours and 34 minutes. This was Russia’s 70th (60th planned) exit under the ISS project and the fifth in 2023. For Serhiy Prokopyev, it became the eighth exit in his space career, for Dmytro Petelin – the sixth.
The German robotic manipulator ERA, produced by the Fokker Space company, belongs to the regular maintenance equipment of the “Science” module. It acts as the main manipulator for the Russian segment of the station and is used to install and remove the target load on the surface of the station, as well as to check its condition and to move cosmonauts.
Roscosmos published a broadcast of the spacewalk on August 9, 2023. Serhiy Prokopiev is in Orlan-ISS spacesuit No. 5 with red stripes, Dmytro Petelin is in Orlan-ISS No. 4 with blue stripes.
