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Equipping the space station to produce more power …

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Our newest experimental X-plane …

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and preparing to test a new laser communications system …

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A few of the stories
to tell you about this week at NASA.

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On June 15th, NASA astronauts

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Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg
conducted their second spacewalk in a week

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to install
an upgraded International Space Station

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Roll Out Solar Array, or IROSA.

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This was the last of six new IROSAs currently planned for the station.

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The new arrays are designed to augment
the station's power system

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and enable the orbiting laboratory
to generate about 30% more power.

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During the AIAA Aviation Forum

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the week of June 12th in San Diego, NASA
and Boeing announced

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that the experimental aircraft produced
through the agency's Sustainable Flight

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Demonstrator project has become our newest X-plane -

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designated by the U.S. Air Force as the X-66A.

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Working with NASA, Boeing will build, test, and fly 
the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing

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concept aircraft
with the specific goal of helping the U.S.

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achieve net zero
greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

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The Orion spacecraft
that will carry astronauts

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around the moon on our Artemis II
mission will also test

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a new laser communications
terminal known as the

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Orion Artemis II Optical Communications System, or O2O.

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Laser communications systems offer increased data
transfer rates that allow more information

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to be sent in a single transmission
than with traditional radio waves systems.

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More data could mean more discoveries.

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Our Curiosity Mars rover recently captured

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this composite image of an area
known as “Marker Band Valley.”

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The image combines
a morning scene, an afternoon

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scene and added color
for artistic interpretation.

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The combined dramatically different
lighting conditions

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at those times of day
make details in the scene stand out.

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Marker Band
Valley is in the region where the rover

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unexpectedly discovered
signs of an ancient lake.

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That's what's up this week at NASA.