International Space Station Receives Major Power Boost | This Week @NASA

International Space Station Receives Major Power Boost | This Week @NASA

Equipping the International Space Station to produce more power, our newest experimental X-plane, and preparing to test a new laser communications system . . . a few of the stories to tell you about—This Week at NASA!

Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Woody Hoburg and Steve Bowen of NASA concluded their spacewalk on June 15, 2023, 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.

Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Video Producer: Andre Valentine/Haley Reed

Video Editor: Haley Reed

Narrator: Jesse Carpenter

Duration: 2 minutes, 47 seconds

Release Date: June 16, 2023

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