1. Astronauts John Grunsfeld and Rick Linnehan kicked off the makover a day earlier with the first solar array transplant. 2. Atlantis brought food, water, clothing and a pair of shears for Solovyev and Budarin to use in repairing a crippled solar array during a spacewalk next month. 3. Degraded solar arrays and batteries caused a brief electrical power interruption, disrupting the science experiments of a guest European cosmonaut. 4. Dezhurov and Culbertson photographed a slightly askew power generating solar array extending from the left side of the Zvezda module. 5. During a future spacewalk, the Mir crew plans to sever and discard the mangled solar arrays. 6. During its ascent, however, the Skylab lost an electrical power generating solar array and heat shielding. 7. Engineers hope the insulation moderates temperature extremes that may cause unusual power variations, and occasional stalls, seen in the motors when they move the solar arrays. 8. Efforts to establish a new link to a third Spektr solar array failed. 9. Entrepreneurs are building conventional power plants while scientists make steady advances on alternatives like windmills, fuel cells and solar arrays. 10. From there, they used a crowbar to tap on a solar array latch that failed to snap into place when the massive power module was installed in December. |