They will be outside the ISS for approximately 6.5 hours
Today, April 25, at 17:57 Moscow time, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub began their first spacewalk in 2024. Roscosmos is broadcasting live on its website. The estimated duration of the exit is 6 hours 36 minutes, the main goal — installation of scientific equipment on the «Poisk» module.
Cosmonauts will install the equipment of the «Kvarts-M» experiment on the study and control of space corrosion on the International Space Station (ISS). Equipment will also be installed experiment «Perspective-KM» for testing an deployable transformable space structure made of polymer composite materials with shape memory effect. On the module «Science» The cosmonauts will have to fully open the second panel of the small-sized radar of the Napor-miniRSA experiment. for Earth observation for the purpose of environmental control and emergency monitoring.
If there is time left during the exit, the cosmonauts will dismantle the «Poisk» one of two containers of scientific equipment for the experiment «Biorisk» to study the influence of outer space factors on the state of microorganisms. They will also deploy to a different position the pressure and deposition control unit, which measures the rate of deposition of contaminants on the outer surface of the ISS.