Overview

• During the fourth all-female spacewalk, Astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara successfully replaced a degraded bearing assembly in one of the International Space Station's solar array rotation mechanisms; however, due to delays, they ran out of time to retrieve a failed electronics box.
• Both Moghbeli and O'Hara faced their first spacewalk, marking this the first all-female spacewalk since the one performed in January 2020 by Jessica Meir and Christina Koch.
• The astronauts commenced the spacewalk at 8:05 a.m. EDT when they switched their spacesuits to battery power. It was the 269th spacewalk on the station and the year's 12th. It ended after 6 hours and 42 minutes at 1:47 p.m.
• The failed electronics box, officially known as the S-band radio communications component, was aimed to be shipped back to Earth for repairs but will now be prepared for removal during a future spacewalk due to time constraints.
• Apart from replacing the bearing assembly, Moghbeli removed a handling fixture to make way for the future installation of a roll-out solar array blanket and repositioned a kinked ethernet cable. Despite encountering difficulties along the way, such as a lost tool bag, both astronauts completed the spacewalk successfully.