On September 12, 2021, Japanes astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet performed the spacewalk to build a support fixture for a roll-out solar array blanket that will be attached later, to replace a device that measures the strength of the electrical environment around the ISS. The EVA lasted 6 hours and 54 minutes. It was the 4^th spacewalk for Akihiko Hoshide and the 6^th spacewalk for Thomas Pesquet.