Astronauts to replace faulty ISS antenna during spacewalk
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot are scheduled to conduct a spacewalk on August 25 to replace a communications antenna between the International Space Station and Earth. According to Space.com, the extravehicular activity is expected to begin at approximately 8:35 a.m. EDT (12:35 GMT). The work is expected to last about 6.5 hours.
NASA broadcast
NASA plans to begin its live broadcast at 7:00 a.m. EDT, or 11:00 GMT. The antenna the astronauts are to install is a communications channel that provides high-speed data transmission between the ISS and the Johnson Space Center Mission Control Center in Houston.
More current news is available on the UA.News Telegram channel Telegram.
Completion of previous work
During a previous spacewalk on August 18, Menon and Adenot removed the faulty antenna but did not have time to install a replacement. It was Adenot's first spacewalk: she became the first Frenchwoman to conduct extravehicular activity.
The planned spacewalk is expected to be the third in Menon's career and the second for Adenot. If time permits, the astronauts will also attempt to replace a retroreflector on the forward port of the Harmony module, which is intended to improve navigation data for spacecraft arriving at the station. This will be the 283rd spacewalk in the history of the ISS, which has been continuously inhabited by rotating crews since November 2000.
