Astronauts Begin Final Spacewalk To Repair Hubble

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday May 18, 2009 @03:30AM from the wave-while-you're-up-there dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Astronauts John Grunsfield and Andrew Feustel began the fifth and final spacewalk of their Hubble Space Telescope repair mission this morning at 8:20AM. During their spacewalk the two will install the second battery group replacement in an equipment bay above the Wide Field Camera 2 and next to the compartment where the first battery set was installed on the second spacewalk. Each of the battery module weighs 460 pounds and contains three batteries. The batteries provide electrical power to support Hubble's operations during the night when there's no sun to power the solar arrays."

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Proof... by Mr.+Firewall · 2009-05-18 03:41 · Score: 0, Redundant

...that science journalists don't have to know anything about science any more:
"Each of the battery module weighs 460 pounds"

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Re:There is no night in space! by Faux_Pseudo · 2009-05-18 04:04 · Score: 0, Redundant

And in space the weight of the batteries isn't 460 pounds either.

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Great Reporting by bodland · 2009-05-18 05:46 · Score: 0, Redundant

Reporter - "Those battery packs look heavy. How much do they weigh?"

Astronaut floating in shuttle "Ahhh they are pretty light up here."