NASA has cleared Joshua Kutryk and Anil Menon for a November 5 spacewalk to fit the International Space Station's eighth and final roll-out solar array. The planned seven-hour job starts at 13:30 UTC.12
Completing the upgrade would lift generating capacity from 160 kilowatts to about 215, roughly 34% more. That is a target, not an installation already completed.1
Bloomboff's take: Space looks glamorous until someone has to handle the solar-panel fitting. Here, the practical payoff is more watts. Tomorrow's work still has to go right.
