{"id":502521,"date":"2026-03-18T23:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/two-nasa-astronauts-conduct-a-spacewalk-to-modernize-the-energy-on-the-iss\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T23:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T03:28:11","slug":"two-nasa-astronauts-conduct-a-spacewalk-to-modernize-the-energy-on-the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/two-nasa-astronauts-conduct-a-spacewalk-to-modernize-the-energy-on-the-iss\/","title":{"rendered":"Two NASA astronauts conduct a spacewalk to modernize the energy on the ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Miami.-<\/strong> NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams conducted a spacewalk on the International Space Station (ISS) this Wednesday, the first by the United States in over a year, with the aim of preparing for the installation of new deployable solar panels.<\/p>\n<p>For about eight hours, both astronauts carried out key work for the future incorporation of these systems, which will provide additional energy to the orbital laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>Meir and Williams, members of Expedition 74, went outside from the Quest airlock at 8:52 a.m. Eastern Time and headed to the left side of the main structure of the station.<\/p>\n<p>There they assembled and installed a support that will allow, in a future mission, to place a new advanced solar panel of the iROSA type, more efficient than the current ones.<\/p>\n<p>We recommend reading:<\/p>\n<p>Once deployed, this will be the seventh of the eight panels planned within the modernization program initiated in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike traditional systems, these new panels do not require engines to open: the potential energy stored in their composite material structures allows them to fully deploy -reaching up to 19 meters in length- in approximately six minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami.- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams conducted a spacewalk on the International Space Station (ISS) this Wednesday, the first by the United States in over a year, with the aim of preparing for the installation of new deployable solar panels. For about eight hours, both astronauts carried out key work for the future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26Jb","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yerandi Santana","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-02-13-at-5.35.07-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}