Their collaborative operations have served two primary functions.

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First, the primary dashi, which functions as this soup's broth, comes together when a pot of water with kombu is boiled and bonito flakes are tossed in.

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The primary computer that controls critical station functions defaulted to a backup computer, but it was not letting the station communicate with Nasa's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, the US space agency said.

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