Astronauts finished the space station's eight-array power upgrade.
The 6-hour, 59-minute spacewalk completed work that began in 2021 and required 18 spacewalks to prepare channels and install the arrays.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk installed and deployed the eighth and final International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array on the station's 3B power channel.
WHAT HAPPENED
The November 5 spacewalk lasted six hours and 59 minutes. NASA says work on the augmentation began in February 2021 and took 18 spacewalks to prepare equipment and install all eight arrays. Together, the roll-out arrays increased station power-generation capacity from 160 kilowatts to approximately 215 kilowatts.
WHY THIS IS HOPESLOP
Five years of work ended in a piece of hardware quietly unfurling above Earth. The hopeful part is the accumulated competence: eighteen spacewalks, international teamwork and enough added power to keep a shared laboratory operating through its final years.
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