Oct 15 2000
From The Space Library
Astronauts Leroy Chiao and William S. McArthur made a spacewalk outside the ISS to link electrical cables to the station's new truss and to deploy the main antenna. The pair routed six power- and data-cables between the truss and the station, as well as four backup cables. Tests indicated that all connections worked. The astronauts moved one of the truss's two antennas to a temporary location out of the way of future construction work; mounted the main antenna, a 78-inch-wide (2-meter-wide) dish, to a 12-foot (3.7-meter) boom; and extended the main antenna. According to NASA's schedule, the ISS crew would turn on the antenna during an April 2001 Shuttle mission.
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