Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Live in orbit: Crew working on solar wing trouble

The joined crews of shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station are slightly retracting the wing with the torn solar blanket. It appears they are trying to loosen a taut guidewire that looks as if it got hung up during deployment. That might enable the astronauts to attempt to fully unfurl the array, which is about three-quarters of the way deployed at this time.

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