Las Astronauts Anne McClein and Nicole Iyers have started Thursday Space walk for more than six hours To make communications and power distribution improvements International Space Station (EEI).
Extravehicular Mission (EVA, English) 9.15 EST (15.15 Spanish Peninsula Time) started, which was planned for more than an hour Last minute reviews One of the gloves of astronauts and one of the body cameras.
Megline and Iyers will relocate a communication antenna from the orbit and laboratory They will establish a assembly support that acts as the basis for a new solar panels Erosa (International Space Station Rollout Solar Rows).
These panels will come to work in the future change program, They will increase the power capacity of the station up to 30%, Moving from 160 kW to 215 kW. It is a total of 275 dedicated to the assembly, maintenance and progress of the 93 space walk and orbit complex produced by the US.
Mcallin uses this walk, The third of his career life, A space suit with red lines, at the same time there are no badges for its first Extrahichular Mission for the dresses of Iyers.
NASA said this style underlines its stability Maintain the activity of EEIAn orbit laboratory that operates as a platform for scientific research and international cooperation in space.
America, will operate since 1998, a International cooperation symbol in space exploration. NASA SpaceX to create a spacecraft aimed at exaggerating and eliminating EEI at the end of its useful life in 2024.