According to reports, this incident happened during a spacewalk at China’s Tiangong Space Station. Spacewalks are usually performed when external instruments of the space station need repair. Astronauts go out in their spacesuits and perform spacewalks for several hours.
During one such spacewalk, a Chinese astronaut can be seen hanging above the Earth. This footage was recorded by the camera installed in the robotic arm of the space station. China’s Shenzhou 18 mission is currently present at Tiangong station. It was launched for Tiangong in the month of April. The scientists associated with it did a spacewalk of eight and a half hours, which is a record.
Astronauts named ‘Ye Guangfu’ and ‘Li Guangsu’ worked for 8.5 hours outside the Tiangong Space Station on May 28. Before this, no Chinese astronaut had done a spacewalk for so long. ‘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.
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.