ESA's Sophie Adenot to conduct second spacewalk for critical antenna installation

A week after a stubborn bolt interrupted their work, French astronaut Sophie Adenot and NASA's Anil Menon will return to the exterior of the International Space Station on August 25, 2026, to finish installing a spare Space-To-Ground antenna that restores the orbiting laboratory's communication redundancy. The failed antenna has left the Station dependent on a single link to Earth since November 2025—an unacceptable vulnerability for a facility that sustains human life. In completing this task, Adenot becomes the fifth French astronaut to walk in space, adding her name to a lineage that remind