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 by Staff Writers Washington (AFP) March 29, 2018
Two American astronauts on Thursday completed a lengthy spacewalk to replace old hoses on the the International Space Station's cooling system and make other equipment upgrades, footage from the US space agency NASA showed. The walk -- which lasted six hours and 10 minutes -- by flight engineers Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold got off to a delayed start at 1333 GMT because leak checks for one of the astronaut's space suits took longer than expected, a NASA TV commentator said. But once outside of the space station, the astronauts worked methodically and without incident to install wireless communications antennas, swap out the cooling system hoses and replace a broken video camera with a new one. The hoses are suspected as a possible cause of an ammonia leak from the space station's cooling system. It was Feustel's seventh spacewalk and Arnold's third. The astronauts are recent additions to the crew of the orbiting space station, arriving on March 23 with Russian crewmate Oleg Artemyev aboard a Soyuz spacecraft.
Airbus delivers new life support system for the ISS Friedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Mar 20, 2018 Airbus has delivered the ACLS (Advanced Closed Loop System), an advanced life support system to purify air and produce oxygen for the International Space Station (ISS). The system also produces water, more or less as a by-product of the technology. ACLS was developed by Airbus for the European Space Agency (ESA) and is set to be used as a technology demonstrator on the ISS from summer 2018. The ACLS extracts a portion of the carbon dioxide in the cabin atmosphere and, using hydrogen obtained from ... read more
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