{"id":573565,"date":"2026-08-19T08:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573565\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:06:10","slug":"nasa-european-space-agency-astronauts-conduct-spacewalk-to-replace-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573565\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA, European Space Agency astronauts conduct spacewalk to replace antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/8377e6c08535b5a167b3646744eb881a.JPG\"\/>This screenshot taken from a video released by NASA shows NASA astronaut Anil Menon and European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot stepping outside of the International Space Station on Aug 18, 2026 to replace a Space-to-Ground antenna. (PHOTO\/NASA)<\/p>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/hk\/article\/634433#NASA-ends-decade-long-Mars-mission-after-spacecraft-loss-2026-06-04\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a> astronaut Anil Menon and the European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot began a spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) to replace a Space-to-Ground antenna.<\/p>\n<p>The spacewalk began at 8:29 am Eastern Time (12:29 GMT) on Tuesday and was still underway, with the spacewalk expected to last about six and a half hours, according to NASA.<\/p>\n<p>The antenna is a critical link used by NASA to transmit data, enabling high-speed communications between the Mission Control Center in Houston and the ISS.<\/p>\n<p>The spacewalk marked the second spacewalk for Menon and the first for Adenot. It is the 282nd spacewalk in support of space station assembly, maintenance and upgrades, according to NASA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This screenshot taken from a video released by NASA shows NASA astronaut Anil Menon and European Space Agency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[202899,17614,13559,3323,111,139,69,147,148501],"class_list":["post-573565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-anil-menon","tag-european-space-agency","tag-international-space-station","tag-nasa","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-sophie-adenot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}