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On Sunday, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) prepared for the second extra-vehicular activity (EVA) of the STS-127 mission, to take place today, when they used the station's robotic arm to unload a spare-part container from Endeavor's cargo bay. The supplies, which are destined for critical systems on the laboratory, will be unpacked today, and some of them installed in their respective places. For this event, two astronauts aboard the shuttle, Commander Mark Polansky and Pilot Doug Hurley, used the robotic arm on the craft to lift the container from the cargo bay, and maneuvered it within reach of the ISS' robotic arm. The container is now safely stored at a special location at the end of the arm, awaiting deployment later today. “It's basically a platform and attached to the platform are three very large pieces of equipment. If required at some point in the future, it's basically a hot spare ready to go on orbit,” Polansky said for NASA in a pre!
-flight interview, Space informs. “We will be changing the batteries on the P-6 solar array, six large batteries that each weigh around 300, 350 pounds, the size of small refrigerators. That's the oldest solar array system on the space station so we'll rejuvenate that solar array system,” Mission Specialist Dave Wolf ...
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