The section that's circled in yellow is the P6 Truss. On one of the last missions they finished retracting it's solar arrays. P6 in reality looks identical to the S4 and P4 pieces you see here (I circled P4 in green. They relocated P6 right on then end of P4. (well, to be technical, there's a small spacer piece in between called P5 but you can't really see it here.
The bad news for project is that, as you may have seen in the news, while the crew was deploying P6's solar arrays one of the blankets ripped! The early words is that the cables that run down the edges of the blanket which carry the power generated by the solar cells is still intact so if they can finish deploying it, we should be ok.
The bad news for project is that, as you may have seen in the news, while the crew was deploying P6's solar arrays one of the blankets ripped! The early words is that the cables that run down the edges of the blanket which carry the power generated by the solar cells is still intact so if they can finish deploying it, we should be ok.
Array damage.
Hopefully by the end of next week this is what the ISS should look like. P6 is darker here and Node 2 is on the front.
2 comments:
FYI - Node relocate isn't going to be until November 14th.
Yup, we heard that today too. This ripped array seems to be a bigger problem than I thought at first
-R
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