"Opening of exit bay doors is scheduled for 10:28 (Moscow time). Salizhan Sharipov and Leroy Chiao are supposed to spend 5 hours and 47 minutes on the surface of the station. The return is planned for 16:12 (Moscow summer time)," Space Mission Control official reported.
The best part of work in outer space will be "manual launch" of mini-satellite Nanosat. Initially, Russian cosmonaut Sharipov will have to deliver the spherical spacecraft weighing about five kilograms to the surface of the station, attach it to the docking module Pier, connect it to electrical circuit and leave it to charge, while performing other tasks.
However, after the conclusion of work in outer space and before the return to the station, Sharipov will have to launch Nanosat manually. "Cosmonaut will simply throw it, like a baseball, into space, aiming against the movement of the ISS and a bit downward," the official told RIA Novosti.
The major task of the crew, though, is to set and connect three antennae of inter-board radio relay network to a small-diameter Russian module Zvezda for future docking of the new European cargo spacecraft Julius Verne with the ISS. "The work on setting up and connecting electric cables supplying power to these antennae will be especially difficult," the Space Mission Control official added.
After that, both crew members, holding on to the rails, will move to the propulsion compartment of the Zvezda module, where they will install a satellite navigation antenna array. "Later, Salizhan Sharipov and Leroy Chiao will have to photograph a visiometer installed by the previous crew - Gennady Padalko and Michael Fink," the Space Mission Control official reported.
After a photo session, the crew will return to docking module Pier, launch the satellite, enter the station and close the bay doors at 16:12 (Moscow time), he added.
