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marketrent OP t1_iyo7yu0 wrote

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>NASA will provide live coverage of the first spacewalk beginning at 6 a.m. EST on Saturday, Dec. 3 on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin at 7:25 a.m. and last about seven hours.

>NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio will exit the station’s Quest airlock to install an International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA) to augment power generation for the 3A power channel on the station’s starboard truss structure.

>This spacewalking task will restore redundancy for affected station systems following unexpected tripping observed on the 1B channel Nov. 26. By isolating a section of the impacted array, which was one of several damaged strings, the goal is to restore 75% of the array’s functionality.

>Cassada and Rubio are scheduled to conduct the next U.S. spacewalk Dec.19, this time to install an iROSA on the 4A power channel on the port truss.

Credits: NASA; editing by Roxana Bardan.

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Skimmdit t1_iyo881l wrote

>live coverage of US spacewalks

...unless something odd appears in the background of the feed, then the coverage will mysteriously shut off for a while.

(Comment is a nod to the UFOlogists who claim this happens any time an ISS camera catches an unusual object or light in its feed)

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Dawn-Chi t1_iyot1hq wrote

Haha! Silly me thought that live coverage, meant life insurance coverage. Then I read it again

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Xaqv t1_iypv4v4 wrote

Brought to you by Celestial Shoe Trees, the closet organizer for the suave space walkers.

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dipfearya t1_iyrot6a wrote

Some people watch football, some people watch movies. I find this fascinating.

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