Scheduled for Jun 15, 2023 #NASA #Astronaut #SpacewalkNASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Warren "Woody" Hoburg are taking a spacewalk on Thursday, June 15, to add a new solar panel to the International Space Station. Bowen and Hoburg are scheduled to install a second International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array, or IROSA, on this spacewalk, after previously installing one on June 9. The new arrays will increase the power capacity of the orbiting laboratory. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 8:55 a.m. EDT (1255 UTC) and last about six hours. This is Bowen's tenth spacewalk and the second for Hoburg.
US EVA-88: This will be the 8th spacewalk so far this year, the 2nd for Hoburg and the 10th for Bowen; he expects to move from 5th to 3rd on the list of world's most experienced spacewalkers, passing Drew Feustel's 61-hr 48-min mark just 1 hour 26 minutes into today's EVA
NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg holds the roll-out solar array in hand after successfully releasing it from Flight Support Equipment. The duo will now move on to relocating the solar array for installation.
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Spacewalk success 👏Astronauts @Astro_Woody and Steve Bowen successfully installed a roll-out solar array after a 5hr and 35 minute spacewalk outside the @Space_Station. Teams on the ground in Mission Control Houston helped guide them through the steps.
NASA Spacewalkers Finish Installing Roll-Out Solar ArrayExpedition 69 Flight Engineers Woody Hoburg and Steve Bowen of NASA concluded their spacewalk at 2:17 p.m. EDT after 5 hours and 35 minutes.Hoburg and Bowen completed their major objective to install an IROSA (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array) to augment power generation for the 1B power channel on the station’s starboard truss structure.The new array is 60 feet long by 20 feet wide (18.2 meters by 6 meters) and is shading a little more than half of the original array, which is 112 feet long by 39 feet wide. Each new IROSA produces more than 20 kilowatts of electricity and together enable a 30% increase in power production over the station’s current arrays.NASA and Boeing have a plan in place for a fourth set of roll-out arrays to further augment the International Space Station’s power supply. These arrays, which would be the seventh and eighth installed on space station, are targeted for delivery to the orbital outpost in 2025.It was the 265th spacewalk in support of space station assembly, upgrades, and maintenance. The spacewalk marked the second for Hoburg and tenth for Bowen, tying him for the most spacewalks by a U.S. astronaut along with Mike Lopez-Alegria, Bob Behnken, Peggy Whitson, and Chris Cassidy.Hoburg and Bowen are in the midst of a science mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions, including lunar missions through NASA’s Artemis program.Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on Twitter, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.Get weekly video highlights at: https://roundupreads.jsc.nasa.gov/videoupdate/Get the latest from NASA delivered every week. Subscribe here: www.nasa.gov/subscribeAuthor Mark GarciaPosted on June 15, 2023Categories Expedition 69Tags International Space Station, NASA, spacewalk
A view of the new roll-out solar array unfolding after NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg successfully installed it to the 1B power channel on June 15, 2023. Credit: NASA TV
