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Astronauts walk in space to upgrade International Space Station datacomms. No more hard drives by courier – Blocks and Files – Blocks and Files
Two astronauts will walk in space today to upgrade the International Space Station’s datacomms. Their efforts will mean that data collected in science experiments…
Two astronauts will walk in space today to upgrade the International Space Station’s datacomms. Their efforts will mean that data collected in science experiments conducted aboard the ISS will no longer be sent to Earth via hard drives carried by returning astronauts.
The space walkers are expected to take six hours to install the ColKa (Columbus Ka-band), a fridge-sized terminal funded by the UK Space Agency and built by MDA UK.
The ISS Columbus module, launched in 2008, currently has lousy data…
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