Astronauts Luca Parmitano and Chris Cassidy switched their spacesuits to battery power and began their spacewalk…
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Sentinel-1 encapsulation vacuum chamber
Sentinel-1A being enclosed in the vacuum chamber at Thales Alenia Space near Rome, Italy. Here, the…
Alphasat fuelled with chemical propellant
Alphasat completed the fuelling operations on July 5, 2013. A specialist Thales Alenia Space team loaded…
Checking the spacesuits
Chris Cassidy (left) and Luca Parmitano checking their spacesuits on 3 July 2013. During their sortie…
MIRI integration into JWST payload module
MIRI, the mid-infrared camera and spectrograph (left), was installed in the science payload module of the…
Volare spacewalk training
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will venture outside the International Space Station to install equipment and perform…
Thinking about the actual EVA
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA's Chris Cassidy will take part in two spacewalks outside the…
Peruvian landscape
The foothills of the Andes mountains near the southern coast of Peru were captured by the…