The International Space Station has a new solar array that was installed during Sunday’s spacewalk by Expedition 65 astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet. The duo will conduct a third spacewalk on Friday to install a second solar array. The first ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA) was successfully installed and deployed during a spacewalk on …
United States On-orbit Segment (USOS) Extravehicular Activity (EVA) #75 – ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (IROSA) 2B Install 2: EV1 (Thomas Pesquet) and EV2 (Shane Kimbrough) performed a 6 hour and 28 minute EVA on Sunday, June 20th and completed the following tasks in support of the IROSA 2B Install 2 EVA: Complete install of IROSA …
NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet concluded their spacewalk at 2:10 p.m. EDT, after 6 hours and 28 minutes. In the eighth spacewalk of the year outside the International Space Station, the two astronauts completed the deployment of a new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA) on the far end …
Working together outside the International Space Station, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough successfully connected and deployed a new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA). It is the first of six total new iROSAs that will be installed in the coming years to upgrade the station’s power supply and is the …
ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough have begun their spacewalk outside the International Space Station to install and deploy the first new ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA). The spacewalkers switched their spacesuits to battery power at 7:42 a.m. EDT to begin the spacewalk, which is expected to last about …
NASA Television coverage of today’s spacewalk with NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet is now underway and is also available on the NASA app and the agency’s website. LIVE SPACEWALK: @Astro_Kimbrough of @NASA_Astronauts and @Thom_Astro of @ESA work outside the @Space_Station to install new solar arrays. https://t.co/usLAy7mEXh — NASA …
NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pesquet are scheduled to exit the International Space Station’s Quest airlock Sunday for a spacewalk to continue installation and deployment of the first of six total new solar arrays to help power the orbiting laboratory. The duo installed the solar array into its mounting …
Payloads: JAXA Moderate Temperature Protein Crystallization Growth (Moderate Temp PCG): The crew retrieved JAXA PCG Sample Tube 1 from Freezer-Refrigerator Of STirling cycle (FROST), started the protein crystallization and then stowed the samples in FROST2 . The objective of the JAXA Moderate Temp PCG investigation is to grow high quality protein crystals in microgravity. The …
The June solstice gives us the green light to welcome the summer season in the Northern Hemisphere and winter season in the Southern Hemisphere. This happens June 21, 2021, at 03:32 UTC, but for us in North America, that’s June 20 at 10:32 p.m. CDT (UTC-5). In meteorology, summer begins on June 1. Yet, June …
Payloads: ISS HAM: The crew initiated a contact with Collège Albert Camus, La Norville and Université Paris-Saclay, Saint-Aubin, France. ISS Ham Radio provides opportunities to engage and educate students, teachers, parents and other members of the community in science, technology, engineering and math by providing a means to communicate between astronauts and the ground HAM …
