CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A couple of spacewalking astronauts finished a four-year exertion to modernize the International Space Station’s force framework on Monday, introducing one final battery.
Over the course of the end of the week, flight regulators in Houston utilized the space station’s large robot arm to supplant the last pair of old-style batteries with a solitary better-quality one. NASA’s Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover put the final details on this freshest lithium-particle battery to finish a progression of spacewalks that started in 2017.
Albeit the spacewalk began late, Hopkins and Glover hustled through the battery work in less than 60 minutes. They likewise made fast work of camera installations and crushed in some additional errands.
The astronauts looked down at Earth and absorbed one final dusk prior to reappearing the space station.
“Definitely, appreciate the view. You folks worked really hard today. You all shook it,” Mission Control said as the five-hour spacewalk closed well in front of timetable.
The space station is presently furnished with 24 lithium-particle batteries to store power gathered by the sun oriented boards. The large, square shaped batteries, outperforming 400 pounds (180 kilograms) each, give power to the circling lab when it’s on the night side of Earth. They’re ground-breaking to the point that solitary half as many are required as the old nickel-hydrogen batteries they supplanted.
The update took longer than anticipated after one of the new batteries fizzled after it was introduced two years back and must be supplanted. On the whole, 14 spacewalks were expected to finish the battery work.
NASA anticipates that these batteries should last the remainder of the space station’s working life.
Other than battery work, Hopkins and Glover introduced another camera on the U.S. Fate lab andCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A couple of spacewalking astronauts finished a four-year exertion to modernize the International Space Station’s force framework on Monday, introducing one final battery.
Over the course of the end of the week, flight regulators in Houston utilized the space station’s large robot arm to supplant the last pair of old-style batteries with a solitary better-quality one. NASA’s Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover put the final details on this freshest lithium-particle battery to finish a progression of spacewalks that started in 2017.
Albeit the spacewalk began late, Hopkins and Glover hustled through the battery work in less than 60 minutes. They likewise made fast work of camera installations and crushed in some additional errands.
The astronauts looked down at Earth and absorbed one final dusk prior to reappearing the space station.
“Definitely, appreciate the view. You folks worked really hard today. You all shook it,” Mission Control said as the five-hour spacewalk closed well in front of timetable.
The space station is presently furnished with 24 lithium-particle batteries to store power gathered by the sun oriented boards. The large, square shaped batteries, outperforming 400 pounds (180 kilograms) each, give power to the circling lab when it’s on the night side of Earth. They’re ground-breaking to the point that solitary half as many are required as the old nickel-hydrogen batteries they supplanted.
The update took longer than anticipated after one of the new batteries fizzled after it was introduced two years back and must be supplanted. On the whole, 14 spacewalks were expected to finish the battery work.
NASA anticipates that these batteries should last the remainder of the space station’s working life.
Other than battery work, Hopkins and Glover introduced another camera on the U.S. Fate lab and supplanted parts in the camera framework outside the station’s Japanese lab, named Kibo, or Hope in English.
During a spacewalk last Wednesday, the two astronauts made upgrades to the European lab, Columbus.
Two more spacewalks will be led in about a month to prepare for extra sun oriented boards set for conveyance in the not so distant future.
Seven astronauts as of now live on the space station: four Americans, two Russians and one Japanese. supplanted parts in the camera framework outside the station’s Japanese lab, named Kibo, or Hope in English.
During a spacewalk last Wednesday, the two astronauts made upgrades to the European lab, Columbus.
Two more spacewalks will be led in about a month to prepare for extra sun oriented boards set for conveyance in the not so distant future.
Seven astronauts as of now live on the space station: four Americans, two Russians and one Japanese.