GITAI's 1.5 meter long autonomous dual robot arm system (S2). S2 will be mounted on the Nanorack Bishop Airlock outside the International Space Station (ISS) and will perform in-orbit services such as satellite maintenance, inspection, and life extension operations. Credit: GITAI
Equipment installation and station maintenance were the bulk of the on-orbit schedule. international space station On Tuesday, February 13, Expedition 70 crews expanded on work begun yesterday, completing maintenance around the station while awaiting the arrival of the next cargo ship.
The Progress 87 cargo ship is scheduled to launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 10:25 p.m. EST The Progress, carrying approximately three tons of food, fuel and supplies, is scheduled to enter the station at approximately 1:12 a.m. on Saturday, February 17th.
Two cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chubut were on duty last night, February 12, monitoring the departure of the Progress 85 cargo ship as a cargo supply ship prepared for launch. . Progress left the orbital laboratory at 9:09 p.m., re-entered Earth's atmosphere three hours later, and burned up harmlessly over the Pacific Ocean.
The ISS Progress 81 supply ship from Roscosmos is photographed shortly after undocking from the aft port of the Zvezda service module. Credit: NASA
Kononenko and Chubut then worked light duty, focusing on auditing the cargo and preparing for future experiments.
On the other hand, ESA (european space agency) Commander Andreas Mogensen spent most of the day working in the Nanorak Bishop airlock. He installed his Nanoracks-GITAI S2 modular robotic arm to demonstrate the design, construction, and operation of an outboard robotic system. This technology demonstration is intended to aid the development of robots for assembly and manufacturing in space and support future commercial lunar missions.
NASA Astronaut Jasmine Moghbeli spends her day doing several different tasks, including collecting blood pressure data for a vascular aging study, storing the biomonitor clothing and headband she wore yesterday, and collecting air samples from across the station. I spent it.
Jasmine Moghbeli, NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 flight engineer, explains how plant immune systems adapt to spaceflight and how spaceflight affects plant production. posing in front of the Kibo experimental module's advanced plant habitat housing tomato plants for an experiment investigating the Credit: NASA
NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara meets Mogensen at the Nanoracks-GITAI S2 installation before photographing the Plant-Microbe Space Interactions (APEX-10) Petri plate launched on Northrop Grumman's Unit 20. I supported it.th Commercial resupply mission to the station. A new study will investigate whether beneficial microorganisms can alleviate some of the negative effects that the space environment has on plant growth and development.
At Kibo Laboratory, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Aeronautical engineer Satoshi Furukawa spent the day documenting space demonstrations proposed by students for JAXA's Try Zero-Gravity educational activity. Students vote on tasks for JAXA astronauts to perform on the station, such as applying eye drops and doing push-ups on the ceiling, allowing youth to interact with station residents and learn about life and work on the station. You can make suggestions. Microgravity.
inside Roscosmos During this segment, flight engineer Konstantin Borisov completed some on-orbit maintenance tasks and performed a distillation cycle on the Roscosmos water management system.
