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> Solar panels smaller in area than ISS but produces similar amount of power, indicating much more efficient solar panels I should hope so after over a decade.
by rtkwe 4y ago
> Solar panels smaller in area than ISS but produces similar amount of power, indicating much more efficient solar panels
I should hope so after over a decade. AFAIK they haven't changed the solar panels since the last one was installed in 2009 and the design was probably fixed well before the first one was installed.
> A robotic arm similar to ISS that walk along the joint points on the station. It has expandable attachment system, allowing not only astronauts to attach, but also a smaller more precises robotic arm to attach that can manipulate external experiments
Canada Arm also walks along the ISS too using alternating ends that astronauts can be attached to.
- wumpus 4y agoI think you missed the recent delivery of new roll-up solar panels to the ISS. Also I don't think the CanadaArm can roam to the Russian segment, but there's a new European arm that does.
- rtkwe 4y agoI've tried and can't find a list of the positions of the grapple fixtures CanadaArm uses on the ISS but I think it could reach pretty far over the Russian segments from the other half of the station. I did forget about those but they did only cover one small part of the array iirc. Most of the original array is still active.