Russia says next spacewalk set for January 2018September 2, 2017 - 16:54 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The forthcoming spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) under the Russian program is due in January 2018, cosmonaut Aleksandr Misurkin, who is to go to the ISS with a new crew, told a news conference on Friday, September 1, TASS reveals. Originally the spacewalk was scheduled for the end of 2017 to be eventually postponed till February 2018. Installing equipment on the outer surface of the ISS for data transmission via the satellite system Luch was then named as the spacewalkers’ main task. "At the moment extravehicular activity is on the expedition’s schedule. Under the Russian program the spacewalk is expected in January. Anton Shkaplerov (due to go to the ISS in December) and I will perform the mission together," Misurkin said. Installing Russia’s newly-designed system of communication will be the main task. "It will be a wide-band system of communication that will eventually improve the quality of current experiments underway on board the ISS and help stage new ones. NASA’s Mark Vande Hei and Joseph Acaba will go to the ISS together with Misurkin. Their spacecraft Soyuz MS-06 is to blast off from the Baikonur space site in Kazakhstan on September 13 at 00:58 (Moscow time). Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |