A mission to install the first of six new solar wings outside the International Space Station was unuseful because of technical issues, NASA has said.
Veteran astronauts Thomas Pesquet from the European Space Agency and Shane Kimbrough from NASA were three hours into their spacewalk when technical issues with Kimbrough's suit display control panel and worries over a potential sensor error interrupted the mission.
"About three hours into today’s spacewalk, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough made his way back to the Quest airlock at the International Space Station to reconnect his spacesuit to an umbilical connection and restarted it," said NASA.
A few hours later NASA announced that the solar array installation could not be completed on time.
The astronauts floated near the station’s Quest airlock for seven hours in this year’s seventh spacewalk and 239th mission in support of the International Space Station’s assembly since it began construction in 1998.
Courtesy: NASA
