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NASA/Johnson Space Center

RS2

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A view of the removal of the RapidScat Nadir Adapter from the SpaceX-4 Dragon trunk and installation of the adapter onto the Columbus Exposed Facility Unit (EFU).The RapidScat instrument was the first piece of technology to be robotically assembled in space since the station's construction, as well as the first scatterometer to be able to cross-calibrate with other instruments in orbit.

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