Overview
- Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot installed a spare Ku‑band Space‑to‑Ground antenna and moved the faulty assembly to External Stowage Platform‑3 during a roughly 6.5‑hour spacewalk that began on Tuesday, Aug. 25.
- The completed work finished a repair that began on Aug. 18 when the pair removed the failed SGANT but ran out of time because bolts and electrical connectors were stuck and suit consumables were limited.
- Inside the station, astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway supported suit operations and operated Canadarm2 to position Menon and the spare antenna for mounting and connections.
- The EVA was Menon’s third straight spacewalk and Adenot’s second, making Adenot the first French woman to perform an EVA; the activity was the 283rd ISS spacewalk and the 98th using U.S. EMU suits.
- Restoring the second Ku‑band antenna returns redundancy for high‑data links used for video, telemetry and command with Houston and underscores the ongoing maintenance demands and spare‑parts needs of the aging ISS.