Two astronauts launched into the primary spacewalk of 2023 on Friday as they labored towards upgrading the Worldwide House Station’s energy technology system.
NASA astronaut Nicole Mann teamed up with Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Company for the morning spacewalk, which NASA officers stated lasted seven hours and 21 minutes. They put in a modification equipment on the far finish of the ISS, permitting for the longer term set up of the roll-out photo voltaic array.
The spacewalk was scheduled to start out at 8:15 a.m., EST, however NASA officers stated the operation was forward of schedule with each astronauts setting their spacesuits to battery energy a few minute earlier, marking the official begin of the mission.
“Wakata and Mann have been joined on Thursday by NASA Flight Engineer Frank Rubio for closing spacewalk preparations,” NASA stated in an announcement. “The 2 spacewalkers together with Rubio staged instruments and {hardware} contained in the Quest airlock in the course of the morning. The trio then spent the afternoon reviewing spacewalk steps and procedures earlier than readying the 2 spacesuits for operations.”
Friday’s spacewalk was the primary for Mann and Wakata, who got here aboard the ISS on SpaceX’s Crew-5 mission in October. The pair re-entered the area station after their work Friday afternoon.
Astronauts have already put in 4 of the six deliberate ISS Roll-Out Photo voltaic Arrays on earlier spacewalks.
Rubio and astronaut Josh Cassada on Dec. 22 took half in a 7 1/2 hour spacewalk to put in and deploy a roll-out photo voltaic array on the station’s Port-4 truss phase. The pair additionally put in one other roll-out photo voltaic array on the Starboard-4 truss phase on Dec. 3.
NASA had earlier postponed the Dec. 22 spacewalk due to the potential of area junk within the space. The area station was moved to keep away from the fragment of the higher stage of an outdated Russian Fregat-SB, permitting the spacewalk to proceed.
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