{"id":64741,"date":"2026-08-25T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=6ef1aaa557bba31146a3194059a27817"},"modified":"2026-08-25T04:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:01:00","slug":"watch-2-astronauts-replace-failed-iss-antenna-during-spacewalk-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/08\/25\/watch-2-astronauts-replace-failed-iss-antenna-during-spacewalk-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch 2 astronauts replace failed ISS antenna during spacewalk today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                            \n                            <article>\n                                <div class=\"youtube-video\" data-nosnippet ><div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"high\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/I0j7as4MLHk\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><p>Two astronauts will do some repair work outside the International Space Station today (Aug. 25), and you can watch the action live.<\/p><p>NASA's Anil Menon and Sophie Adenot of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/22562-european-space-agency.html\"><u>European Space Agency<\/u><\/a> will conduct a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacewalk-history.html\"><u>spacewalk<\/u><\/a> today (Aug. 25) to replace a space-to-ground-antenna. The extravehicular activity (EVA) is expected to start around 8:35 a.m. EDT (1235 GMT) and last 6.5 hours.<\/p><p>You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I0j7as4MLHk\" ><u>directly via the space agency<\/u><\/a>. Coverage will start at 7:00 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT).<\/p><figure class=\"van-image-figure  inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\"><p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img id=\"intWgzLxHinP4DegP2w3hS\" name=\"iss_75_eva04\" alt=\"Two astronauts in white bulky spacesuits work outside a large space station set against the blackness of space.\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/intWgzLxHinP4DegP2w3hS.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">NASA astronauts Jessica Meir (at right) and Anil Menon (facing away from camera) completed a 6.5-hour spacewalk to install solar array mounting hardware outside of the International Space Station on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: NASA)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>This will be the third spacewalk for Menon and the second for Adenot, the first French woman ever to conduct an EVA. Her history-making first excursion occurred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/international-space-station\/nasa-astronaut-and-1st-female-french-spacewalker-remove-failed-iss-antenna-but-run-out-of-time-for-replacement\"><u>on Aug. 18<\/u><\/a>, when she and Menon removed a failed space-to-ground antenna, a relay link that enables high-speed communications between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/missions\/international-space-station\"><u>International Space Station<\/u><\/a> (ISS) and Mission Control at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17216-nasa-johnson-space-center.html\"><u>Johnson Space Center<\/u><\/a> in Houston.<\/p><p>The duo ran out of time before they could install a replacement antenna, however. They'll finish the job today, if all goes to plan.<\/p><p>\"If time allows, Menon and Adenot also will attempt a get\u2011ahead task to replace a retroreflector on the forward port of the space station's Harmony module, which will improve navigation data for visiting spacecraft,\" NASA officials wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/news-release\/nasa-to-cover-three-us-spacewalks-host-preview-news-conference\/\" ><u>spacewalk preview<\/u><\/a>.<\/p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/cjX0NS2R.html\" id=\"cjX0NS2R\" title=\"Blastoff! Russia launches NASA astronaut and 2 cosmonauts to ISS\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><p>Adenot arrived at the ISS in February as part of SpaceX's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/international-space-station\/who-are-the-astronauts-of-spacexs-crew-12-mission-to-the-iss\"><u>Crew-12 mission<\/u><\/a>, which also includes NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway and Jessica Meir and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. <\/p><p>Menon came aboard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/soyuz-ms-29-astronaut-launch-international-space-station-anil-menon\"><u>on July 14,<\/u><\/a> making the trip on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft along with cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina. Menon performed his first-ever spacewalk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/international-space-station\/1-more-step-nasa-astronauts-conduct-6-5-hour-spacewalk-to-prep-iss-for-solar-array-upgrade\"><u>on Aug. 6<\/u><\/a>, with Meir.<\/p><p>Menon will be \"crewmember 1\" on today's spacewalk, and Adenot will be \"crewmember 2.\" The EVA will be the 283rd in the history of the ISS, which has been continuously occupied by rotating astronaut crews since November 2000.<\/p>\n                                                            <\/article>\n                            \n                        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut Anil Menon and France&#8217;s Sophie Adenot will conduct a spacewalk today (Aug. 25) to replace a space-to-ground-antenna on the International Space Station. 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