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ctv.ca | astronauts fix ripped solar sail during spacewalk     home news canada am w-five weather video sports entertainment programs tv listings news programs ctv news team services top stories canada world entertainment health sports business sci-tech politics consumer specials galleries ctv news with lloyd robertson canada am politics w-five lloyd robertson sandie rinaldo hosts reporters web team contact us daily newsletter submit a story weather wireless site map rss galleries   in this image provided by nasa television, astronaut scott parazynski rides in the foot restraints at the end of the 90-foot robotic arm and boom extension at the site of the damaged solar array saturday, nov. 3, 2007. (nasa) in this image provided by nasa television, astronaut scott parazynski is shown on saturday, nov. 3, 2007. (ap photo/nasa) astronauts fix ripped solar sail during spacewalk updated sat. nov. 3 2007 6:43 pm et ctv.ca news staff two astronauts from space shuttle discovery have successfully completed complex repairs on a torn international space station solar wing. mission specialists scott parazynski and doug wheelock began the mission's fourth spacewalk on at 6:03 a.m. et on saturday. the more than seven-hour excursion wrapped up at 1:22 p.m. et. parazynski installed five crew-built mini braces made of short stips of aluminum and tape on to the torn wing. he then clipped the wires that had ripped it in two places as it was being unfurled tuesday. the crew inside the space station then slowly deployed the wing half a bay at a time to its full length of 35 metres. andrew yee of zinc projects, a science and education consulting group, told ctv newsnet the use of the canadarm has played an integral role in the mission. "the canadarm has always been central to the entire construction of the space station," yee said. "without the arm, then a lot of astronauts would have to go out to do a lot more spacewalks. and that's the whole point of having a robotic arm - reduce the amount of space walks so the arm can do some of the simpler stuff or maybe service an extension in this case to reach places normally an astronaut cannot get to." flight controllers and astronauts meticulously planned every detail of the repair session that saw parazynski take a 45-minute ride on the station's 27-metre robotic arm and boom extension to the damaged array. parazynski was secured in a foot restraint on the end of the orbiter boom sensor system (obss). the obss functions as an extension to the shuttle's robot arm and is used for inspection of the orbiter's thermal protection system. when he arrived at the wing, parazynski reported that the snag was caused by a guide wire, hinge and grommet. "it ripped clean from the edge of the panel," parazynski said of the torn hinge. "the cells are still intact in the back side. it just came off from the edge." "sounds like you have some surgery to do, dr. parazynski," discovery commander pamela melroy told the physician-turned-astronaut. wheelock positioned himself at the base of the wing to guide parazynski and the astronauts operating the robotic arm. italian astronaut paolo nespoli choreographed the spacewalk from inside the complex. risk of shock the solar panel parazynski fixed buzzes with something between 100 to 160 volts of electricity. to reduce the risk of shock, all of the metal parts on parazynski's spacesuit were triple-wrapped with insulating tape. the solar panel tear had threatened to hamper power production and future construction work on the orbital outpost, including the planned december launch of a european lab. without repairs, the wing's tear could have worsened and caused structural damage to the international space station. if the wing became unstable, nasa would be forced to cut it loose and risk losing a vital power source for future laboratories. space historian randy attwood said the unexpected repair mission has caused a fifth spacewalk to be scrapped. "there was one spacewalk where they wanted to do some tests of a way to fix space shuttle tiles in a vacuum but they won't be able to do that," he said. instead, two astronauts and the russian cosmonaut aboard the space station will attempt the tests during an extra spacewalk on monday when the shuttle discovery departs. "it's a little bit of a delay in what they want to get done but a lot of what they want to do with the space station would stop dead in it's tracks if they weren't able to fix this (solar array)," attwood said. with files from the associated press   user tools print this page e-mail story feedback fonts:biggersmaller sci-tech stories google co-founder about to marry, al gore invited scientists claim to clone monkey embryos china tests mt. everest cell station yahoo, jailed journalists settle lawsuit angry residents want federal contamination study world's smallest bear faces extinction australian fined for pirating 'simpson' movie many europeans choose internet over tv wall street journal likely to become free online chocolate used more than 3,000 years ago marvel posts some of its older comics online bay pilot didn't realize damage of crash: lawyer video ctv news: john vennavally-rao on the daring fix  ctv newsnet: tim cole, canada sci. and tech. museum  ctv newsnet: andrew yee, zinc projects  ctv newsnet: kenneth money, canadian astronaut  related stories nasa preparing plan for risky spacewalk nasa works on spacewalk plan to fix solar wing nasa delays next spacewalk astronauts find rip in space station solar panel web links nasa - shuttle mission main page user tools print this page e-mail story feedback fonts:biggersmaller sci-tech stories google co-founder about to marry, al gore invited scientists claim to clone monkey embryos china tests mt. everest cell station yahoo, jailed journalists settle lawsuit angry residents want federal contamination study world's smallest bear faces extinction australian fined for pirating 'simpson' movie many europeans choose internet over tv wall street journal likely to become free online chocolate used more than 3,000 years ago marvel posts some of its older comics online bay pilot didn't realize damage of crash: lawyer about ctv | contests | careers | ctv announcements | advertise on tv | ctv media | advertise on web archive sales | tapes and transcripts | privacy policy | terms and conditions | contact us | site map © 2007 all rights reserved.

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