The Shenzhou-17 astronaut crew successfully completed the second out-of-cabin activity China's astronauts completed the extravehicular maintenance mission for the first time.
The reporter learned from the China Manned Space Engineering Office that at 13:32 on March 2, after about 8 hours of out-of-cabin activities, Shenzhou-17 astronauts Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin worked closely together, with the cooperation and support of the space station's robotic arm and ground scientific researchers, completed all the established tasks, astronauts Tang Hongbo and Jiang Xinlin have safely returned to the Wentian experimental module, and the second out-of-cabin activity of the Shenzhou-17 astronaut crew was a complete success.
On the basis of the last out-of-cabin maintenance test, this out-of-cabin activity focused on completing the maintenance work of the solar wing of the Tianhe core module, eliminating the impact of the impact of small particles in space in the early stage, and the power generation performance of the solar wing was normal after evaluation and analysis. This is the first time that Chinese astronauts have completed the maintenance of extravehicular facilities of a spacecraft in orbit. During the out-of-cabin activities, the astronauts also inspected the status of the space station module.
According to the plan, a large number of space science experiments and technical tests will be carried out during the Shenzhou-17 manned mission.
*: Xinhua News Agency, China Manned Space WeChat***