Astronauts Complete Final ISS Solar Array Installation
Science · First reported 5 Nov, 21:50 · Updated 22:10
Joshua Kutryk and Anil Menon completed a spacewalk to install the final solar array on the International Space Station, concluding a multiyear effort to upgrade its power generation.
- Kutryk and Menon completed a spacewalk on Thursday to install the eighth and final solar array on the station’s starboard truss.
- The spacewalk lasted six hours and 59 minutes; it was Kutryk’s second and Menon’s fifth.
- The solar-array campaign is expected to increase the station’s power-generation capacity by up to 30 per cent.
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- Spacewalk duration
- Six hours and 59 minutes
- Astronauts
- Joshua Kutryk and Anil Menon
- Installation
- The eighth and final solar array on the station’s starboard side
- Expected power-generation increase
- Up to 30 per cent
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