The mission started at 12:27 GMT. Twenty minutes later, Sophie Adenot of the European House Company (ESA) was as soon as once more within the vacuum of area across the ISS, accompanied by her teammate, NASA astronaut Anil Menon, mounted on the bottom of the Canadarm2 robotic arm.
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The 2 astronauts had already spent greater than six hours exterior the ISS, simply sufficient time to take away the defective House-to-Floor antenna, the one NASA engineers name SGANT.
That day, Sophie Adenot and Anil Menon had struggled with cussed bolts and connectors, and the 2 astronauts had not had time to switch SGANT with a brand new antenna.
The purpose of this second spacewalk was subsequently to complete the job.
This second outing lasted 6 hours and half-hour. The 2 astronauts put in after which linked the alternative antenna. This tools performs a key position in communications between the ISS and NASA’s management centre in Houston, significantly for the transmission of high-bandwidth information.
In all, this operation marks the 98th US spacewalk and the 283rd performed for the meeting, upkeep or modernisation of the Worldwide House Station.
Final February, Sophie Adenot grew to become the second French lady to journey into area aboard the US capsule SpaceX Crew Dragon. Claudie Haigneré went earlier than her in 1996 after which in 2001 aboard Soyuz rockets.
