Spaceflight Now: STS-106 Mission Report

Jammed solar array panel
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: September 11, 2000

Atlantis astronauts Ed Lu and Yuri Malenchenko have been asked to inspect a possibly jammed solar array on the new Zvezda command module during their spacewalk. The panel of the array (circled) was supposed to have unfolded minutes after Zvezda's launch in July.

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