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Spacewalkers install final add-on solar array, completing space station power upgrade

Completing a complex upgrade five years in the making, two spacewalking astronauts on Thursday mounted an eighth and final roll-out solar wing on the International Space Station, boosting the lab’s power output to compensate for the age-related degradation of its original arrays.  NASA began the power-system upgrade in 2021 when two spacewalkers installed the first […]