ScienceISS: Sophie Adenot and Anil Menon conduct spacewalk to replace space-to-ground antenna

Sophie Adenot and Anil Menon carried out a spacewalk to replace a 90-kilogram space-to-ground communications antenna. An ESA official said the technically demanding mission shows the International Space Station’s interdependence, with European, American, Japanese, Canadian and Russian partners relying on one another to keep it operating despite more complicated relations on Earth.

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