Today Terry, Butch and I had a familiarization class with high-fidelity EVA hardware.
When we practice spacewalks in the pool we have replicas of the components we need to repair or replace. These replicas have most of the elements that we work on: bolts, electrical connectors, fluid lines, etc.. but in the pool environment not all features can be replicated.
Today, in a dry environment, we had a chance to put our eyes and hands on high-fidelity equipment! The piece of hardware you see in the picture, for example, provides rotation capability of a single solar array wing around its axis. This way we can always optimize the orientation of the array with respect to the Sun and maximize the energy generation.
(Trad IT) Traduzione in italiano a cura di +AstronautiNEWS qui:
https://www.astronautinews.it/tag/logbook/
(Trad ES) Tradducción en español aquí:
https://www.intervidia.com/category/bitacora/
(Trad FR) Traduction en français par +Anne Cpamoa ici:
https://anne.cpamoa.free.fr/blog/index.php/category/logbook-samantha
22/10/2013