{"id":211832,"date":"2017-05-23T10:59:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T08:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=211832"},"modified":"2017-05-23T11:00:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T09:00:28","slug":"emergency-spacewalk-to-replace-failed-nasa-space-station-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/211832-emergency-spacewalk-to-replace-failed-nasa-space-station-computer.html","title":{"rendered":"Emergency spacewalk to replace failed NASA space station computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronauts will perform a spacewalk on 23 May to replace a computer on the\u00a0International Space Station,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-space-station-idUSKBN18H0XQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>T<\/strong>he computer which failed is the\u00a0multiplexer\/demultiplexer, which was installed on 30 March. It is one of two which control major systems belonging to the US on the space station.<\/p>\n<p>It is responsible for\u00a0routing commands\u00a0to its solar power system, radiators, and cooling loops.<\/p>\n<p>Two NASA astronauts,\u00a0commander Peggy Whitson and flight engineer Jack Fischer, will perform the two-hour spacewalk.<\/p>\n<p>The spacewalk will be broadcast live on\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/nasatv\/index.html#public\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NASA TV<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0at 14:00 SA time. The webcast will begin at 12:30.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/209184-spacex-reveals-1gbps-broadband-satellite-plans.html\">SpaceX reveals 1Gbps broadband satellite plans<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronauts will perform a spacewalk on 23 May to replace a computer on the International Space Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":163418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[36498,22983],"class_list":["post-211832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-international-space-stations-iss","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211832"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211902,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211832\/revisions\/211902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}