Two more solar collectors were added to the International Space Station today after the STS-117 astronauts deployed them over the station's new S3/S4 backbone component. The team members can now prepare for the tasks involved in the next spacewalk.
The rear solar collectors of the space station are installed on top of the S3/S4 component after their retirement. Photo: NASA TV
The array of solar collectors on the new component - which is used as a corridor or as the S3/S4 station avenue - was deployed to its full width with the assistance of the STS-117 team. The component was installed on the station on Monday, after which two astronauts went on a spacewalk to connect it to the station's infrastructure. On Tuesday, as mentioned, the two solar collectors that were connected to the new component were deployed, approximately 35 meters wide.
Later, the teams got a few free hours and at night Israel time they will start planning the spacewalk planned for Wednesday. This time it will be Steve Swanson and Pat Forrester who will continue the S3/S4 connection activity and assist in folding the array of solar collectors on P6 during the spacewalk scheduled to begin at 14:03 EST - 21:03 Israel time.
And in the meantime, today NASA published the photos of the area where the shuttle's heat protection tiles were damaged, a damage that caused NASA to decide to add two days and another spacewalk from the Atlantis mission. During the third or fourth (additional) spacewalk, they will try to repair the missing tiles in the pod cover that houses the rocket engines they use for space maneuvers. Here are the pictures before you (For the full page of photos on the NASA website)
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A question for Abi Bilovski, believe me, I searched on Wikipedia on the NASA website, how exactly do the solar collectors produce electricity, are there turbines on the space station, I don't know if you can answer the question and not on any other website