Spacewalking astronauts complete tricky repair of space station's $2 billion antimatter detector

[Admin]

It took four years of planning, 20 new tools shipped by spacecraft and an unprecedented four-part repair job, but a $2 billion experiment on the International Space Station is all patched up after a spacewalk by astronauts Saturday (Jan. 25).

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[cheesegeek]

The AMS repair sure reminded me (and many others, I'm assuming) of the Hubble repair. Kudos to everyone who was involved in this enormous job.

There's a guy on Youtube (Astralpackrat) who makes time-lapse videos of the spacewalks and launches:

Spacewalk 1:
Briefing:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXp_TAochSg

Spacewalk:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L36OOJLQGmo


Spacewalk 2:
Briefing:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn2QjyU5Z88

Spacewalk:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkAyufDe_-w


Spacewalk 3:
Briefing:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IISE8pxwzXA

Spacewalk:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8oQprZ5zPs

 

[rmm200]

Expensive instruments, designed for attachment to the space station, should always be designed for maintenance. It is never a question of will it have problems - it is when. Problems are a given.