New spacewalk for women: the protagonists are still astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, both of NASA, who from 12.10 return to work for about six and a half hours outside the Space Station to replace the batteries of the panels solar. Christina Koch is the leader of the extra-vehicular activity and is recognizable by the red bands on the sleeves and sweatpants. On the Science and Technology channel we broadcast the live broadcast of the spacewalk in live streaming with NASA starting at 11.30
The goal is to reach the trellis 6 of the orbital station to replace the old nickel-hydrogen batteries with the new lithium batteries, which was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2020. Here is an animation of NASA's sequence of activities that the two astronauts will face:
The third and final spacewalk is scheduled for January 20, in which Koch and Meir will have to complete the replacement of the batteries that store energy for the orbital station.
