On Friday the spacewalkers installed the two cameras external the International Space Station for a Canadian streaming-video business, but then retrieved the gear after electrical connections failed.
Mission commentator Rob Navias said during a NASA TV broadcast of the spacewalk. Station commander Oleg Kotov and flight engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy left the station’s Pirs airlock at 8 a.m. ET as the complex sailed 418 kilometers over Australia for the duration of the 1st part of Friday’s outing, the Russian cosmonauts set up a high-definition video camera on a swiveling display place and a medium-resolution still imager for Vancouver-based UrtheCast Corp.
The Russian space agency approved to host the cameras on its division of the $100 billion station in exchange for rights to use images and video taken over Russia. UrtheCast has commercial rights to images and video of the rest of the world, company chief executive Scott Larson told Reuters.
Spacewalkers of the Russian country run into snags with Earth-watching cameras
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