At 8:13 a.m. EDT, STS-132 spacewalkers Michael Good and Garrett Reisman installed the fifth of six new batteries, battery E, on one half of one of the four solar arrays on the International Space Station.
The batteries have an expected life span of 6.5 years. The batteries being removed have been in use for about 9.5 years and were still operating within specifications.
The spacewalkers completed the installation at about 1 hour and 45 minutes into today’s spacewalk.