Russian astronauts complete spacewalk and continue to integrate ERA robotic arms

CTOnews.com, September 3, according to the Russian satellite news agency, Russian astronauts Oleg ∙ Artemiyev and Dennis Matveyev have completed a spacewalk and worked outside the International Space Station for more than seven hours.

Sources show that during this mission, the astronauts continued to prepare for the next operation of the ERA robotic arm installed on the multi-function experimental module of the Science.

The last spacewalk took place on August 17. Due to a problem with the spacesuit, two Russian astronauts ended the spacewalk ahead of schedule. Russian Aerospace Group said at the time that the unfinished mission would be carried out during the next spacewalk.

CTOnews.com learned that Artemiyev suffered a failure of the spacesuit battery on August 17 and was forced to return to the space station and connect the spacesuit to the space station with the help of a ground flight control center.