Friday 10 April 2009

New Segment For Space Station : Solar Wings

In the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, workers have installed the final solar array wing for the International Space Station onto the S6 truss element. Scheduled to launch on the STS-119 mission, space shuttle Discovery will carry the S6 truss segment to complete the 361-foot-long backbone of the station. The truss includes the fourth pair of solar array wings and electronics that convert sunlight to power for the orbiting laboratory.

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