Flight controllers in Houston were updating software on the ISS when one of its data relay systems broke down.

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The dish would send the ISP's data up to one of the satellites (in low earth orbits to minimize signal delay), which would then relay the data back down to a backbone access point.

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After leading off the relay, 100-meter superstar Magnussen sat down.

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The ground control stations send their commands to Reaper via a fibre-optic link to a satellite relay station in Europe, which bounces them into space and back down to the aircraft.

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