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Kutryk to become fifth Canadian astronaut to perform a spacewalk
The two astronauts will install eight rollout solar arrays to boost the station’s power system from 160 kilowatts to 215 kilowatts.
- During Thursday, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk and NASA astronaut Anil Menon are performing a spacewalk to install solar arrays on the International Space Station at roughly 400 kilometres above Earth.
- The International Space Station Roll Out Solar Arrays will increase the station's power capacity from 160 kilowatts to 215 kilowatts after a second scheduled spacewalk on Nov. 5, upgrading the orbital outpost's energy generation system.
- Menon will attach himself to Canadarm2, the robotic arm crucial to ISS construction, to retrieve and transport each array; Kutryk remains tethered to the truss structure to complete the installation work.
- Canada plays a prominent role through the Canadian Space Agency's Robotics Mission Control Centre in Longueuil, Que., while CSA astronaut Jenni Gibbons serves as capcom from Johnson Space Center in Houston.
- The spacewalk is scheduled for 8 a.m. EDT and expected to last nearly seven hours; David Saint-Jacques, the last Canadian to conduct one in 2019, called it "a shocking feat of teamwork.
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Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk made his first exit from the International Space Station in Earth orbit on October 29, 2026.
·Montreal, Canada
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Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk to conduct his 1st spacewalk
The International Space Station is roughly 400 kilometres above Earth, moving at roughly 7.66 kilometres per second, and today, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk will be whizzing around Earth while working outside of it to install solar arrays.
·Ottawa, Canada
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