CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A pair of spacewalking astronauts tackled one last round of battery improvements outside the International Space Station on Monday.

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One Li-Ion battery and one adapter plate will replace each NiH2 battery pair, using jumper cables between the new batteries and adapter plates to maintain the serial circuit. “We’re really ...

The ISS Program began conducting a preliminary risk and feasibility study to evaluate the use of lithium-ion batteries in 2009. The program was approved in 2011, and production of the new ...

They installed three more adapter plates and mounted a third NiH2 battery on one of them. Six of the other nine nickel-hydrogen batteries are already mounted on an HTV pallet for eventual disposal.

Two astronauts took a risky spacewalk Friday as the part of a long-term effort to upgrade the batteries on the International Space Station's power grid.

ISS Astronauts complete first next-gen battery replacement spacewalk. The Astronauts aboard the ISS have changed over some batteries in the 1st of 5 spacewalks. Jak Connor.

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The remaining NiH2 battery was transferred to Adapter Plate F. Following installation of the Adapter Plates, each Battery Charge Discharge Unit (BCDU) was activated successfully.