ISS Particle Detector Focus Of Hubble-Class Repair Effort

NASA had planned to close the year with a series of spacewalks to finish swapping out a dozen nickel-hydrogen batteries on the International Space Station’s (ISS) P6 truss with six more powerful lithium-ion batteries. But when a charge/discharge unit failed, triggering an unplanned spacewalk by ISS...

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