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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
spacewalk
noun
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▪ A vibration that Ace had hardly been aware of ceased: the spacewalk jets closing down automatically.
▪ Ace switched on the spacewalk jets and launched herself through the widening yawn of the doors.
▪ During shuttle spacewalks, pilots can maneuver their spacecraft quickly to chase an astronaut whose security line has snapped.
▪ During the spacewalk, the hatches between Atlantis and Mir were closed for the first time since the docking.
▪ The spacewalk was the last of the major goals for the Atlantis crew during its docked operations.
▪ The last time astronauts did a spacewalk from an aerial outpost was in 1974, when Skylab was operating.
▪ The new schedule calls for five spacewalks rather than the three originally planned for a mission lasting 11 days rather than eight.
▪ The time is rapidly approaching when somebody has to do a spacewalk around this station.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
spacewalk

also space-walk, 1965, from space (n.) + walk (n.).

Wiktionary
spacewalk

n. any activity by an astronaut outside of a spacecraft or space station in space; extravehicular activity vb. To perform a spacewalk.

Wikipedia
Spacewalk (software)

Spacewalk is an open-source systems management application developed by Red Hat. It was formerly the upstream version of the Red Hat Satellite, which was open-sourced in 2008. Spacewalk includes the web interface and back-end, as well as Red Hat Proxy Server and associated client software of Satellite and makes them available to users and developers under a free and open source software (FOSS) license. The relationship between Spacewalk and Satellite was analogous to the relationship between Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Whereas Satellite manages only RHEL and Solaris systems, Spacewalk manages Fedora, CentOS, SUSE and Debian systems.

Spacewalk consists of free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2. While formerly requiring the commercial Oracle Database as a backend, version 1.7 (released in March 2012) added support for PostgreSQL.

Satellite 5.3 was the first version to be based on upstream Spacewalk code.

In March 2011 Novell released SUSE Manager 1.2, based on Spacewalk 1.2 and supporting the management of both SUSE Linux Enterprise and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Spacewalk and Red Hat Satellite 5 are in long-term support mode for Red Hat, as they were designed as monolithic tools that duplicated the Red Hat Network experience, but in an internal deployment. The design criteria were web-centric before the rise of cloud-computing platforms like OpenStack, and configuration management tools like Chef and Puppet. Red Hat chose open-source components (including Puppet and Foreman) as the basis of Satellite 6, which was released in September 2014.

Usage examples of "spacewalk".

Chort was a representative example of Craean spacewalking ability, it was no wonder they were so much in demand.

Sugar smacked her helmet, she smacked his, then they lumbered toward the trailer like a couple of spacewalking astronauts.

Vincent Di Fate painting of an astronaut spacewalking outside a large spacecraft.

Hilfy took a spoonful of stew, wondering if history would forget one Hallan Meras if she sent him on a spacewalk, say on their way to jump.

He'd done four spacewalks and his fluency in Russian would allow him to decipher any cryptic instructions that accompanied the critical explosives packages.

Remember the EMU has been designed for spacewalks in Earth orbit, not for Moonwalks.

Melora had seen phaser banks before, when she had done emergency spacewalks during the war, but she had never seen one ripped from a ship’s hull and mounted on the stalks of what used to be hydrogen collectors.