Sentence examples for power wing from inspiring English sources
To relieve some of the burden of exchanging the power unit, the team that added the second new solar power wing today did some preparations for their colleagues.
Working with deliberate starts and stops, astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour today completed the addition of a major upgrade in power for the International Space Station by extending a second solar power wing over the spacecraft.
After difficulties on Sunday with the deployment of the right power wing, which left it less taut than expected when fully extended, National Aeronautics and Space Administration controllers spent today working out a new procedure for reeling out the left wing, which appeared to succeed.
A21 Building a Bigger Space Station The new International Space Station got bigger and potentially more powerful with the addition of the largest set of solar power wings ever put on a spacecraft.
First, a rotary joint that turns one set of solar power wings toward the sun vibrated oddly and was found to be fouled with steel shavings.
When Endeavour is docked to the station, Dr. Godwin and Mr. Tani are to conduct a four-hour spacewalk to install insulating blankets around two mechanisms that rotate the station's large solar power wings.
He drew on his experience with bird motifs from Kanye West's 12-foot "Power" wings, and the bird section of Darren Aronofsky's ark in Noah.
The station has living and storage sections; a Soyuz escape craft, made by Russia; the Destiny science module; and a huge main solar-power wing made by the United States.
The space shuttle Endeavour is to lift off Thursday night on a mission to add powerful new solar-power wings to the international space station.
The new International Space Station became bigger and potentially more powerful today with the addition of the largest set of solar-power wings ever put on a spacecraft.
With the addition last week of a giant set of solar-power wings, which span 240 feet and are 38 feet wide, the station became even more noticeable in the morning and evening skies around the world.
