On his first spacewalk, he unrolled a solar wing: the station's seventh new array is making power

The International Space Station has a new wing of light. NASA flight engineer Anil Menon and Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk — on the first spacewalk of his life — spent seven hours and 11 minutes outside the station fixing a roll-out solar array to its frame. When they released its tension bolts, the array unrolled on its own in about ten minutes, and it is now generating power. One more array, due to be fitted on November 5, completes a five-year upgrade that began in 2021: together, the eight new wings lift the station's power supply from 160 kilowatts to about 215 kilowatts — up to 30% more electricity to keep the orbiting laboratory's research and critical systems running.

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