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The UK's first industrial contribution to the International Space Station (ISS) will be delivered on Tuesday. As quoted by bbc.com (Feb18) the communications antenna is part of a consignment of supplies that is due to arrive on a Cygnus freighter. Made by MDA UK, the Columbus Ka-band (COLKa) Terminal will enable astronauts to connect with scientists and family on Earth at home broadband speeds. The equipment will be fixed to the exterior of Europe's ISS science module in a few weeks' time. This should improve substantially on current arrangements for radio links. David Kenyon,  managing director of Oxfordshire-based MDA UK, told BBC News that at the moment, the communications from Columbus go through the American data relay satellites, but those satellites are prioritised for US use. This gives Europe some independence. Although Britain was an original signatory to the 1998 treaty that brought the International Space Station into being, the country never got involved in building the platform.  Indeed, it pretty much walked away from the project right at the outset, preferring to spend its civil space budget in other areas of space exploration//  Voi.bbc.com