ISS Expedition 61: U.S. Spacewalk 57Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are set to begin the second in a series of five spacewalks to replace some of the orbiting lab's solar array batteries.
Expedition 61 spacewalkers Andrew Morgan and Christina Koch will continue the work they began on Oct. 6 to install new batteries on the far end of the Port-6 truss structure. The spacewalk is scheduled to begin on Friday, Oct. 11, at about 7:50 a.m. EDT (1150 GMT).
The two astronauts will remove the existing nickel-hydrogen batteries and replace them with newer, more powerful lithium-ion batteries transported to the space station aboard the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle that arrived Saturday, Sept. 28.
This spacewalk (extravehicular activity or EVA), the one prior and the three to follow in the coming weeks continue the overall upgrade of the space station's power system that began with similar work during spacewalks in January 2017.
Morgan, conducing his third career spacewalk, will be EV1. Koch will serve as EV2 on what is also her third EVA.