american space agency NASA announced the postponement of the departure of International Space Station (EEI) that its two astronauts were about to be taken out due to the presence of space debris in the area.

“Faced with the impossibility of accurately assessing the risk to the astronauts, the teams decided to postpone the tour, scheduled for 30 November, until they have more time. InformationNASA insisted.

No new date has yet been set for this departure AE Which was intended to replace an antenna outside the space laboratory that had recently lost its ability to send signals to Earth via NASA’s Data Relay and Tracking Satellite System.

defect of Antenna does not leave the ISS without communication, located in port 1, which has additional low-speed S-band systems, as well as Communication Systems The high-speed Ku band that broadcast video, but mission administrators decided to replace it with a new one.

Astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron plan to spend six and a half hours outside the ISS to replace the antenna with the help of the Canadarm 2 robotic arm, which was controlled by Matthias Maurer. This (European Space Agency).

Marshburn, Baron and Maurer from Mission spacex crew 3Arrived at the ISS on November 11 for a six-month scientific stay aboard the Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft.

Directed by American astronaut Raja Chari, the Crew-3 mission, as its name suggests, is about to arrive on the third crew AE with astronauts from NASA and on SpaceX ships and from other space agencies from the US territory.

Before that, there was also a test mission inhabited, in 2020.

four astronauts on mission crew-3 They will take over the positions left by the four crew members of Crew-2, who returned to Earth last Monday night after six months.

With information from EFE