Officials of China’s space agency CMSA wrote in an update that ‘Ye’ and ‘Li’ installed a device to protect the space station from space debris. Its name is space debris protection device. The astronauts also checked other instruments present there.
It is noteworthy that a few months ago, solar arrays were damaged due to space debris at Tiangong Space Station and power supply was partially disrupted.
To deal with this, Ye and Li installed a device while doing spacewalk. This was ‘Li”s first and ‘Ye”s second spacewalk. The third member of the mission, ‘Li Kang’, helped in the mission while living in the Tiangong Space Station and monitored the activities of the astronauts.
According to reports, Chinese astronauts have conducted a total of 16 spacewalks so far. The first spacewalk took place on 27 September 2008, which was 20 minutes long. This is the first spacewalk of the Shenzhou 18 mission. The mission was launched in April. Two spacewalks had also taken place in the previous mission Shenzhou 17.
China’s space station is at an altitude of 340 to 450 kilometers above the earth. For the first time in the year 2021, a team of astronauts reached the Tiangong Space Station and spent 90 days there. However, at that time the first part of the space station was completed. The second and third units of the space station were launched last year and this year.