Nasa To Provide Briefing, Coverage Of Spacewalks For Station Upgrades
Two NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station volition comport a couplet of spacewalks Friday, June nine, as well as Th, June 15, to install ii new solar arrays.
NASA will hash out the upcoming spacewalks during a tidings conference at 12 p.1000. EDT Thursday, June 1. Live coverage of the word conference and spacewalks will air on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the means's website.
NASA astronaut together with Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Steve Bowen is pictured exterior the International Space Station during his 8th career spacewalk, during which he routed cables as well as installed insulation to fix the orbital outpost for its adjacent ready of roll-out solar arrays.
News conference participants are:
U.due south. media interested inwards participating in somebody must contact the Johnson newsroom no afterwards than 11 a.m., Midweek, May 31, past calling 281-483-5111 or emailing jsccommu@post.nasa.gov. To ask questions, reporters must dial into the word conference no after than eleven:45 a.m., June ane. Questions likewise may live submitted on social media using #AskNASA.
Each spacewalk is scheduled to get at 9:fifteen a.m. together with terminal well-nigh 6-too-a-one-half hours alongside NASA coverage starting time at seven:45 a.1000.
On June ix, NASA astronauts Steve Bowen as well as Woody Hoburg volition go the station'second Quest airlock to install an upgraded IROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) on the 1A ability channel on the starboard truss of the station.
Bowen will serve every bit extravehicular action (EVA) crew member ane together with volition vesture a conform alongside cherry-red stripes. Hoburg volition serve as extravehicular crew member ii and will wear an unmarked accommodate. U.south. EVA 87 will be the ninth spacewalk for Bowen as well as the get-go for Hoburg.
On June fifteen, the same duo of astronauts will install an IROSA on the 1B ability channel on the starboard truss. Assignments for U.due south. EVA 88 volition live determined at a later on appointment.
The spacewalks volition encounter the fifth together with 6th IROSAs mounted to the existing station solar arrays. The new arrays are lx feet long past xx feet broad (xviii.2 meters by 6 meters) in addition to will shade a niggling more than than one-half of the original arrays, which are 112 feet long by 39 feet broad. The seventh too 8th IROSAs will live installed on futurity spacewalks. Each new IROSA volition produce more than 20 kilowatts of electricity, together with in one case all 8 are installed, will enable a thirty% increment inwards ability product over the station'sec electric current arrays.
Learn more virtually International Space Station research in addition to operations at:
https://www.nasa.gov/station
SOURCE NASA
NASA will hash out the upcoming spacewalks during a tidings conference at 12 p.1000. EDT Thursday, June 1. Live coverage of the word conference and spacewalks will air on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the means's website.
NASA astronaut together with Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Steve Bowen is pictured exterior the International Space Station during his 8th career spacewalk, during which he routed cables as well as installed insulation to fix the orbital outpost for its adjacent ready of roll-out solar arrays.
News conference participants are:
- Dina Contella, operations integration manager, International Space Station Program, NASA'second Johnson Space Center inward Houston
- Diane Dailey, spacewalk flight managing director, NASA Johnson
- Megan Shutilka, spacewalk officer, NASA Johnson
U.due south. media interested inwards participating in somebody must contact the Johnson newsroom no afterwards than 11 a.m., Midweek, May 31, past calling 281-483-5111 or emailing jsccommu@post.nasa.gov. To ask questions, reporters must dial into the word conference no after than eleven:45 a.m., June ane. Questions likewise may live submitted on social media using #AskNASA.
Each spacewalk is scheduled to get at 9:fifteen a.m. together with terminal well-nigh 6-too-a-one-half hours alongside NASA coverage starting time at seven:45 a.1000.
On June ix, NASA astronauts Steve Bowen as well as Woody Hoburg volition go the station'second Quest airlock to install an upgraded IROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) on the 1A ability channel on the starboard truss of the station.
Bowen will serve every bit extravehicular action (EVA) crew member ane together with volition vesture a conform alongside cherry-red stripes. Hoburg volition serve as extravehicular crew member ii and will wear an unmarked accommodate. U.south. EVA 87 will be the ninth spacewalk for Bowen as well as the get-go for Hoburg.
On June fifteen, the same duo of astronauts will install an IROSA on the 1B ability channel on the starboard truss. Assignments for U.due south. EVA 88 volition live determined at a later on appointment.
The spacewalks volition encounter the fifth together with 6th IROSAs mounted to the existing station solar arrays. The new arrays are lx feet long past xx feet broad (xviii.2 meters by 6 meters) in addition to will shade a niggling more than than one-half of the original arrays, which are 112 feet long by 39 feet broad. The seventh too 8th IROSAs will live installed on futurity spacewalks. Each new IROSA volition produce more than 20 kilowatts of electricity, together with in one case all 8 are installed, will enable a thirty% increment inwards ability product over the station'sec electric current arrays.
Learn more virtually International Space Station research in addition to operations at:
https://www.nasa.gov/station
SOURCE NASA
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