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Multi-year effort to upgrade space station batteries bears fruit – Daijiworld.com
Washington, Feb 3 (IANS): After 13 different astronauts conducted 14 spacewalks over several years, the primary power system of the International Space Station…
Washington, Feb 3 (IANS): After 13 different astronauts conducted 14 spacewalks over several years, the primary power system of the International Space Station (ISS) has now been fully upgraded to lithium-ion technology, NASA has said.
The space station’s primary power system originally used nickel-hydrogen batteries for storage, the US space agency said on Tuesday.
In 2009, the International Space Station Programme conducted a preliminary risk and feasibility study to evaluate the use of lithium-ion…
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