Michael Good and Garrett Reisman installed the final new battery, battery F, on one of the four solar arrays on the International Space Station at 9:07 a.m. EDT. All six batteries the STS-132 mission delivered to the station are now installed.
The spacewalkers completed the installation about 2 hours and 40 minutes into today’s spacewalk.
Good and Reisman will take battery 1, which was temporarily stored nearby on the integrated electrical assembly, and move it to the pallet which carried the new batteries to the station. The pallet will be returned to the space shuttle. Then they will clean up their work site.
The next task is to transfer a Power and Data Grapple Fixture from the space shuttle’s payload bay to the station for storage; it will be installed later this year. The Power and Data Grapple Fixtures act as a base for one end of the space station’s robotic arm, allowing it to attach, pick up, manipulate and detach from various locations around the orbiting laboratory.