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The International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Array, or IROSA, starts to unroll during today's spacewalk by NASA's Anil Menon and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk to upgrade the orbiting outpost's power supply. Live updates:

A spacewalk is about to get underway at the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk will install and unfurl the 7th of 8 International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays, or IROSAs.

Back again for the second day of the @astrosociety von Braun Space Exploration Symposium. The first panel of the day is focusing on how to provide power for the Moon Base. Follow this thread for updates. 🧵1/n 📸: @w_robinsonsmith

8/ Regarding how it Blue Origin intends to distribute power to other users, Bergman says they've looked at methods like cabling, dust-tolerant connectors, power beaming and others. "While we're not, at this point, planning on distributing the power, we do have plans of how we would do it in the future. Right now, we're following NASA's lead and we'll go where NASA wants to go."

@astrosociety @w_robinsonsmith @NASA_Marshall @blueorigin @voyagertech_ 9/9 This concludes this panel.

Liftoff! A post-midnight takeoff of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Liftoff of the Starlink 15-16 mission at 12:25 am PT (3:25 am ET / 0725 UTC). Watch live:

SpaceX is fueling its Falcon 9 rocket at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of launching the Starlink 15-16 mission. Liftoff is set for 12:25 a.m. PDT (3:25 a.m. EDT / 0725 UTC). Watch live:

SpaceX aims to launch a Falcon 9 rocket shortly after midnight from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Liftoff of the Starlink 15-16 mission is scheduled for 12:25 a.m. PDT (3:25 a.m. EDT / 0825 UTC). Our live coverage begins 30 minutes before liftoff. Watch:

NASA’s two-hour news conference on the state of the Artemis Program included updates on SLS/Orion, the commercial landers, and spacesuits. To learn even more, we sat down with the agency’s associate administrator, Amit Kshatriya. Watch:

The next panel focuses on Artemis 3 and beyond hosted by Steve Creech, Human Landing System program manager at @NASA_Marshall. Follow this thread for updates. 🧵1/n

9/ Tenenbaum says the docking adapter system has been qualified and the qualification article will be arriving at Marshall Space Flight Center this week.

10/ Tenenbaum says Starship Cabin 1 is being built out at Starbase. He says SpaceX aims to complete that in the next month or two and the floor is going in this week. “We’ll use it for crew-in-the-loop testing with NASA crew and test subjects to get feedback on the design as we get ready for the flight build for Artemis 4. So it’ll be a really good asset. So stay tuned for more details on that.”