A view I captured of the sun between ISS solar panels. More details in comments.Submitted by astro_pettit t3_yhkz3i in space
Nocuadra66 t1_iueb8de wrote
Beautiful! I actually built all the locking mechanisms for the Solar panels when I was an aerospace technician in the industry many years ago.
[deleted] t1_iufh6ld wrote
[removed]
Phoenix_3DA t1_iuiil8c wrote
I have to ask, what are the locking mechanisms for and how do they work?
Nocuadra66 t1_iuk3jhu wrote
When the panels are adjusted and turrned into position, the mechanisms I built extract and retract a pin that holds the panel in place.
Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments