NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Anil Menon carry out a 6.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026. The excursion focuses on installing mounting hardware that will support a future upgrade to the station’s solar array system. Both outlets report that the astronauts go to the external area of the ISS during the planned EVA to complete the hardware installation step, which is intended to prepare the station for later addition of new solar arrays.
Space.com describes the work as part of a sequential process for upgrading the ISS’s power infrastructure, with the mounting hardware serving as the prerequisite hardware outside the station. BBC Science similarly characterizes the spacewalk as an installation task for future solar arrays and notes the length of the EVA. No additional mission issues, outcomes, or technical anomalies are reported in the provided summaries.
