Spacewalk inside Mir connects two of three Spektr solar arrays

Mir Cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyov and Pavel Vinogradov managed to connect two of the three functioning solar arrays on the airless Spektr module to alternative sun-tracking avionics in a six-and-a-half-hour internal spacewalk yesterday, raising expectations that the orbital station will recover more...

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