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Mike Wehner
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The International Space Station is a massive laboratory that has produced some incredible scientific discoveries over the past couple of decades. It's been manned on a continuous basis for the majority of that time, and while that's awesome for science, it also means that the space station produces a steady supply of trash as well. Now, following upgrades of the space station's external batteries, the ISS just dumped its biggest piece of space trash ever.
As Spaceflight Now reports, a huge pallet packed with 2.9 tons of old batteries was recently dumped by the space station. Those batteries served as the life-force of the space station when it entered the shadow of the Earth, shrouding its solar array in darkness. For several months now, astronauts have been conducting spacewalks to upgrade those aging batteries with new, more efficient models, and the old batteries had to end up somewhere.
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