Follow live this afternoon, the spacewalk of the astronaut european Samantha Cristoforettiaccompanied by cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev. They will cross the airlock of the international space station from 3:30 p.m. Paris time. This is the first-ever spacewalk, or EVA, from theastronaut Italian arrived on board the ISS last April and the first for a European.
Their mission, during this spacewalk 400 kilometers above the surface of the Earth, is mainly to prepare the european robotic armdeploy a handful of “nanonsatellites designed to collect radioelectronic data” and to install a telescopic pole that will help astronauts in their future spacewalks, explains the European Space Agency (ESA).
So as not to miss a beat of their interventions in space, follow the live broadcast from ESA or the Nasa.