Spacewalkers install and unfurl seventh of eight new ISS solar arrays
Anil Menon and Joshua Kutryk installed the seventh of eight new ISS solar arrays on 29 October.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk installed and unfurled the seventh of eight new IROSA solar arrays on the International Space Station on 29 October. The spacewalk lasted seven hours and 11 minutes.
Menon, 50, and Kutryk, 44, switched their suits to battery power at 7:57 a.m. EDT and began repressurising the Quest airlock at 3:08 p.m. EDT. They finished the IROSA work ahead of schedule, allowing them to take on "get-ahead tasks", including preparations for the final IROSA installation on 5 November.
It was the 285th spacewalk devoted to station assembly, maintenance and upgrades, and the first of two planned to install the final pair of IROSAs. NASA says the eight arrays will raise the station's available power from 160 kilowatts to about 215 kilowatts. NASA Mission Control commentator Rob Navias called the spacewalk "essentially flawless".
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