China News Service, March 12th. According to a report from the Russian Satellite Network, according to a live broadcast on the NASA website, the International Space Station used a manipulator to discard an old 2.5-ton battery panel.

  According to reports, the Japanese HTV-9 cargo spacecraft shipped the new battery panels to the International Space Station in May 2020. After the batteries were replaced in the US cabin, the old batteries were installed on the battery panels for later disposal.

Data map: An astronaut on a spacewalk stepped out of the International Space Station to replace the battery.

  According to a live broadcast on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration website, the SSRMS manipulator grabs the battery panel, pulls it to a safe distance, and then discards it from the International Space Station.

  According to the report, the old battery panel weighs 2.5 tons, making it the heaviest garbage discarded by the International Space Station. After that, the battery panel will go out of orbit and burn in the dense layer of the earth's atmosphere.

  In July 2007, the American astronaut Anderson station discarded the ammonia tank weighing 640 kg through the SSRMS manipulator.

In December 2018, the International Space Station used a manipulator to discard an expired Japanese scientific instrument that weighs half a ton.