6 iROSA (ISS Roll-Out Solar Array)
Taken by Philip Smith on July 12, 2023 @
Manorville, NY USA
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Date Taken: 2023:07:12 18:41:38
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Due to bad weather in my area on the days of the many ISS passes I had lost the chance of imaging. As luck would have it. I got the chance to image the ISS at a max pass of 83° on 07-12-23 from my Manorville, NY Observatory. It was my hope to image all 6 of the iROSA (ISS Roll-Out Solar Array). The weather was very HOT and Humid at 4:15 am EST.
ISS US EVA-87 started on Friday, June 9, at 8:24 AM CDT (13:24 UTC) with the hatch opening on the Quest airlock module. Astronaut Steve Bowen, acting as EV1 with the red stripes on the spacesuit, started his ninth spacewalk, with EV2 Woody Hoburg following him as he started his first-ever EVA.
ISS finishes the initial iROSA upgrade with two EVAs this month. I have labeled them in yellow iROSA 1A and 1B.
The International Space Station’s iROSA (ISS Roll-Out Solar Array) solar panel upgrade, which started in 2021, has finished its initial upgrade plan with the successful installation of the last two arrays this month. The arrays for the 1A and 1B power channels were brought to ISS aboard the CRS-28 Cargo Dragon flight and then installed in a pair of EVAs by NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg.
The iROSA project was started due to the ongoing degradation of the Station’s existing solar panels after years in low-Earth orbit. The original solar array complement, finished in March 2009 with the installation of the S6 truss, was capable of 240 kilowatts when new. However, the radiation environment in orbit has degraded the arrays to the point where they can now only generate 160 kilowatts.
To learn more you can go to this link if you want to. https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/06/iss_irosa_roundup/
My imaging configuration was an Edge HD 14 ′′ telescope with a Baader Red 610 nm Longpass 1.25" Filter on a ZWO ASI174MM (mono) camera and Baader Planetarium Carl Zeiss 2x Barlow Lens within a MoonLite focuser on an Orion Atlas EQ-G mount modified by Emmanuel Rietsch with his satellite tracking system he made for me. Kind Regards To ALL :-)
Photographer's website:
https://www.facebook.com/philip.smith.5686
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