Human Spaceflight

Menon and Kutryk install space station’s final roll-out solar array

The November 5 spacewalk lasted six hours and 59 minutes, completing the eight-array installation campaign documented by NASA and independent SpaceQ reporting.

08 November 2026 at 3:18 pm ISTBy Mission Desk1 min read

Updated 08 November 2026 at 3:18 pm IST: Follow-up to our readiness report: the November 5 installation and deployment are complete. This report adds the confirmed outcome and NASA’s November 6 cleanup record.

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The final roll-out solar array unfurls on the International Space Station’s starboard truss during the November 5, 2026 spacewalk. Credit: NASA+.

NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk installed and deployed the International Space Station’s eighth and final roll-out solar array on November 5, completing its power-augmentation campaign. NASA’s completion report and SpaceQ’s coverage of the spacewalk document the outcome.

The six-hour, 59-minute outing ended at 3:35 p.m. EST on November 5, or 2:05 a.m. IST on November 6. NASA records the installation on the station’s 3B power channel as Menon’s fifth spacewalk and Kutryk’s second.

SpaceQ reported that the team resolved temporary power-flow issues during cable connection before finishing the installation. Its account describes Menon carrying the array on the Canadarm2 robotic arm while Kutryk moved along the station to the worksite.

Menon is an Indian-origin NASA astronaut. His agency biography states that he was born and raised in Minneapolis to Ukrainian and Indian immigrants.

The completed installation follows the November 4 readiness clearance covered in our previous report, when the operation was still scheduled for November 5.

By November 6, Menon and Kutryk had reconfigured spacesuits, stowed tools and joined a post-spacewalk conference with engineers on the ground, NASA reported.

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