{"id":586712,"date":"2026-08-08T05:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586712\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:52:13","slug":"nasa-astronauts-menon-meir-complete-space-stn-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/586712\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasa astronauts Menon, Meir complete space stn upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: Nasa astronauts Anil Menon and Jessica Meir completed a six-hour, 27-minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station to prepare its power system for additional solar arrays.<\/p>\n<p>The astronauts installed mounting hardware on the station\u2019s 3B power channel and routed cabling for future International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSA), Nasa said.<\/p>\n<p>The mission marked Meno\u00adn\u2019s first spacewalk and Meir\u2019s sixth. Nasa said the new arrays would provide additional power for critical systems and support the space station\u2019s eventual controlled deorbit. It was the first of three spacewa\u00adlks planned for the Expe\u00addition 75 crew this month. \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington: Nasa astronauts Anil Menon and Jessica Meir completed a six-hour, 27-minute spacewalk outside the International Space Station&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":586713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,247689,247688,53436,82,247,247690],"class_list":["post-586712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-meir","tag-menon","tag-nasa-astronauts","tag-science","tag-space","tag-stn-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}