A six-hour spacewalk over 400 kilometers above Earth.
This is what awaits the French astronaut and his American colleague Shane Kimbrough who are going to carry out an extra-vehicular exit, secured to the international space station by a cable.
To increase the power of the station, as large as a football field, the two men are going to deploy the solar panels on the port side of the ISS. The “new generation” panels, delivered by freighter in compact form, have already been attached to the exterior of the vessel. Thomas Pesquet will retrieve the 350-kilogram object, then, moved by a robotic arm, will walk alongside the Station to pass it on to his sidekick. they will then unfold the panel and its 19 meters long. A high-precision operation that was prepared and choreographed for a long time on Earth, by the two astronauts
