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William Atkins
Sunday, 24 December 2006 02:30
The mission for STS-117—called ISS Assembly Flight 13A—will deliver the starboard integrated truss segment with solar array wings (S3/S4) to the International Space Station (ISS). STS-117 is the 21st mission of the space shuttle program to visit the space station.
During the mission, the S3/S4 truss assembly will be attached to the truss on the starboard side of the ISS. As an assembly, the S3 and S4 segments contain a pair of solar arrays, a radiator, and a rotary joint that connects S3 to S4. The rotary joint allows the solar arrays to rotate so that they always remain directed toward the Sun in order to collect solar energy from sunlight to power the station. The S3/S4 truss assembly is a twin to the P3/P4 truss assembly except one is located on the starboard (S) side of the space station while the other one is located on the port (P) side. The P3/P4 trust assembly was installed by the crew of the STS-115 mission (Space Shuttle Atlantis), whose mission was in September 2006.
The NASA crew will also fold up the second side of the solar arrays in the P6 truss segment. The first side of the solar array caused problems for the STS-116 crew in December 2006 when the stubborn P6-port solar array wing, refused to fold up properly. Eventually, a fourth EVA (or, extra-vehicular activity) was performed by mission specialist astronauts Bob Curbeam and Christer Fuglesang on Flight Day 10 to completely fold-up the remaining eleven bays of the solar array.
The STS-17 mission is expected to last eleven days, with a landing on March 27, 2007.
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