Russian cosmonaut Oleh Artemyev had to “urgently” end his spacewalk aboard the International Space Station due to problems with his space suit, TASS reports.

“Oleg, this is a very low power level, you need to return urgently, because if the battery is completely discharged, it’s not just the pump or the fan, it can also lose communication,” said the engineer responsible for monitoring the space exit. him .

Later, the Chief Engineer of the RKS Extravehicular Activity Department, Dmytro Akhmerov, said that the decision to continue the mission would be made when Artemyev was in the airlock compartment.

“Let’s wait until Oleg arrives at the airlock. And there the final decision will be made to continue the EVA (without extravehicular activity) or to terminate it. The flight control center will decide,” the Russian engineer told TASS.

Roscosmos reported that there is no threat to Artemiev’s health.

Russian cosmonauts went into space to work on ERA

The cosmonaut went into space with Denis Matveev, another Russian cosmonaut, to install cameras that will provide a wider view of the European Robotic Arm (ERA) and connect its external control panel.

Russian cosmonauts eventually decided to use ERA, although former head of Roscosmos Dmytro Rogozin banned them from doing so in retaliation for the European Space Agency’s decision to end cooperation with the Russian space agency on the ExoMars mission to send a new rover to Mars by the end of 2018. 2022 year.

In mid-July, Rogozin was replaced by President Vladimir Putin.