{"id":29103,"date":"2010-05-19T10:18:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T14:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.nasa.gov:\/\/a3cb26261c8993b596e6fd2d2b8c3722"},"modified":"2010-05-19T10:18:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T14:18:42","slug":"second-battery-installed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=29103","title":{"rendered":"Second Battery Installed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 10:06 a.m. EDT, spacewalkers Steve Bowen and Michael Good installed a second battery, battery B, on one of the four solar arrays on the International Space Station. The STS-132 mission delivered a total of six new batteries to the station. Bowen and Good will install three batteries today and a fourth if time permits. The remaining batteries will be installed during the third spacewalk on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> The batteries are recharged during the sunlit phase of each orbit around Earth and provide a continuous power source to the station during the shadow phase.<\/p>\n<p> The spacewalkers completed the installation about three and a half hours into today&#8217;s spacewalk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 10:06 a.m. EDT, spacewalkers Steve Bowen and Michael Good installed a second battery, battery B, on one of the four solar arrays on the International Space Station. The STS-132 mission delivered a total of six new batteries to the station. Bowen and Good will install three batteries today and a fourth if time permits. The remaining batteries will be installed during the third spacewalk on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> The batteries are recharged during the sunlit phase of each orbit around Earth and provide a continuous power source to the station during the shadow phase.<\/p>\n<p> The spacewalkers completed the installation about three and a half hours into today&#8217;s spacewalk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shuttle-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}