Astronauts, UK Space Agency to Install Ground-Breaking Telecom Kit at International Space Station
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NASA s Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins will perform the 6-hour-long spacewalk to install the device to the European Space Agency s (ESA) Columbus module, marking Britain s first major industrial contribution to the ISS.
Two astronauts will install a new type of technology backed by the UK government on the International Space Station, the UK Space Agency announced on Wednesday.
The Columbus Ka-band Terminal (ColKa) will facilitate experiments in space, including radiation, medical and biomining research, for UK and European scientists.
and i.t. centers across the country, our nation s leaders are wondering if their networks are really secure and if this crisis might indeed spread into their systems. reporter: the questions raised by the exercise involve vulnerabilities, roles and responsibilities, legal authorities, private sector corporation, public messaging, political fallout, military retaliation, defensive capabilities. the goal of the exercise was to put these issues on the table for discussion and perhaps resolution before there s a real and massive cyber attack. yesterday we had fran townsend on with a little preview of this and she said that the government is woefully unprepared to deal with the cyber attack in the level that they were accept uhe lating yesterday. did the government take away any message from this that we know about? reporter: the government did not participate in this exercise. they run their own cyber exercises. they ve done a couple. they re called cyber storm. i talked to some admi