Spacewalkers complete five-year effort to upgrade space station power supply
THE SO WHAT
ISS power is now sized to run a 2030-era orbital lab, not a 2000-era one—five years of solar upgrades buy NASA and partners headroom for more compute-heavy experiments and autonomy on-station. For space and defense contractors, assume higher continuous power budgets when scoping on-orbit payloads over the next 3–5 years.
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