Spacewalkers Wrap Up X-Ray Telescope Repair Job and More

[Link]Astronaut Suni Williams replaces a planar reflector, a visiting vehicles navigation device, near the SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft docked to the Harmony module's space-facing port during her eighth spacewalk. Credit: NASA+

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Nick Hague concluded their spacewalk at 2:01 p.m. EST on Jan. 16. It was the fourth spacewalk for Hague and the eighth for Williams, and it was the 273rd spacewalk in support of space station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades.

Williams and Hague completed their primary objectives, including removing and replacing a rate gyro assembly, installing patches to cover damaged areas of light filters on the NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) x-ray telescope, and replacing a reflector device on one of the international docking adapters. The pair also checked access areas and connector tools that astronauts will use for future Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer maintenance.

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