ISS Spacewalkers Replace Degraded Solar Array Trundle Bearing

Mark Carreau November 01, 2023

Astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli, left,  and Loral O’Hara.

Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—Two NASA astronauts executed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station’s U.S. segment on Nov. 1 to replace a degraded trundle bearing assembly that enables the ISS’s outstretched solar panels to track the Sun to generate electricity. Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara, two first-time...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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