{"id":6087,"date":"2021-03-05T07:50:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T11:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/astronauts-begin-spacewalk-for-solar-array-modifications\/"},"modified":"2021-03-05T07:50:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T11:50:36","slug":"astronauts-begin-spacewalk-for-solar-array-modifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zobi.alcowep.com\/bourtagshdrevxnls658739\/astronauts-begin-spacewalk-for-solar-array-modifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts Begin Spacewalk for Solar Array Modifications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Astronauts Begin Spacewalk for Solar Array Modifications<\/h2>\n

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Astronaut Soichi Noguchi is pictured during a spacewalk that took place over 15 years ago during the STS-114 space shuttle mission to the space station on August 1, 2005<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins<\/a> and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut\u00a0Soichi Noguchi<\/a> have begun their spacewalk outside the International Space Station<\/a> to complete the installation of modification kits in preparation for upcoming solar array upgrades<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The spacewalkers switched their spacesuits to battery power at 6:37 a.m. EST to begin the spacewalk, which is expected to last about six and a half hours.<\/p>\n

Watch the spacewalk on NASA TV, the NASA app<\/a>, and on the\u00a0agency\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rubins is extravehicular crew member 1 (EV 1), wearing a spacesuit bearing red stripes and using helmet camera #22. Noguchi is extravehicular crew member 2 (EV 2), wearing the spacesuit without stripes and helmet camera #20.<\/p>\n

Rubins and Noguchi will traverse out the station\u2019s backbone truss structure to the far left (port) side set of solar arrays, the first pair of solar arrays deployed in December 2000. The spacewalkers will work together to complete the installation and configuration of modification kits on solar arrays 4B and 2B, which will enable new solar arrays to be installed to augment the space station\u2019s power supply. Rubins and fellow NASA astronaut Victor Glover began installing the modification kits during the Feb. 28 spacewalk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following solar array modification kit configuration, the Rubins will conduct cable routing for the Bartolomeo platform Parking Position Interface (PAPOS) on the Columbus module, Noguchi will replace a Wireless Video System External Transceivers Assembly (WETA), and the pair will perform other get-ahead work as time permits.<\/p>\n

This is the 236th spacewalk<\/a> in support of space station assembly.<\/p>\n

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog<\/a>, @space_station<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0@ISS_Research<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter as well as the\u00a0ISS Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0ISS Instagram<\/a>\u00a0accounts.<\/p>\n

Get The Details…<\/a><\/p>\n

Mark Garcia <\/p>\n

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NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut\u00a0Soichi Noguchi have begun their spacewalk outside the International Space Station to complete the installation of modification kits in preparation for upcoming solar array upgrades. The spacewalkers switched their spacesuits to battery power at 6:37 a.m. EST to begin the spacewalk, which is expected to \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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