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STS-134. The 2nd EVA.

On May 22, 2011 American astronauts of the STS-134 crew Andrew Feustel and Michael Fincke performed a spacewalk.

The astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour completed the sixth-longest spacewalk in history on Sunday after needing extra time to finish maintenance work on the International Space Station.

The EVA lasted 8 hours and 7 minutes.

photo NASA.

The spacewalkers worked on the station's cooling system and lubricating elements of the solar array. During the lubrication work, a bolt and washer from a protect ... Read more »

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Arian-5 orbited 2 satellites.

On May 20, 2011 at 20:38 UTC the Ariane-5ECA rocket-carrier was launched from the Kourou space center in French Guiana.

The rocket orbited 2 communications satellites (ST-2 and GSAT-8) to reach customers in Asia, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.

ST 2 was made by the Japanese Mitsubishi Electric Company and will be operated by ST 2 Satellite Ventures, a joint company formed by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., or SingTel, and Chunghwa Telecom Co. of Taiwan. The spacecraft has a design life of 15 years.

India's GSAT 8 satellite will be ready for communications duties by mid-June to start a 12-year mission beaming broadcast and navigation signals. GSAT 8 is one of the heaviest and highest powered satellites that ISRO (Indian Space Resear ... Read more »

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Russia launched an American satellite.

On May 20, 2011 at 19:15 UTC the Russian "Proton-M” rocket-carrier was launched from Baykonur Cosmodrome.

The rocket-carrier orbited the U.S. "Telstar-14R” telecommunications satellite also known as "Estrela do Sul 2”.

Telstar -14R is a commercial satellite produced by the U.S. Space Systems/Loral company for leading satellite operator Telesat. The satellite will replace Telstar 14 satellite at its orbital location to provide broadband coverage for Brazil, continental United States, the Gulf of Mexico, the northern and southern Caribbean, the Central America, and the northern and central Atlantic.

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STS-134. The1st EVA.

On May 20, 2011 American astronauts of the STS-134 crew Andrew Feustel and Gregory Chamitoff performed a spacewalk.

The astronauts retrieved and replaced materials exposure experiment packages, conditioned coolant lines in preparation for flowing ammonia during Sunday's EVA and installed two wireless communications antennas. But a malfunctioning carbon dioxide sensor in Chamitoff's spacesuit prompted an early end to the spacewalk before the crew could connect and route a large bundle of wiring for those new antennas. The EVA lasted 6 hours and 19 minutes.

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