Sentences with phrase «robotic space arm»

RETIREMENT Canadarm: After 90 trips to space, covering 624 million kilometres in total, the iconic robotic space arm was retired from service in July.

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But 30 years after the arm was developed, at the cost of $ 180 million, Canada's specialty in space prosthetics continues, with Canadarm2 and Dextre (a «robotic handyman,» in Canadian Space Agency parlance) on the International Space Staspace prosthetics continues, with Canadarm2 and Dextre (a «robotic handyman,» in Canadian Space Agency parlance) on the International Space StaSpace Agency parlance) on the International Space StaSpace Station.

The SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft is grappled by the Canadarm2 robotic arm at the International Space Station in this May 25, 2012, NASA handout photo.

The company is also collaborating with NASA to build the Archinaut, a prototype 3D printer combined with robotic arms that will perform in outer space, outside of any space station, which will enable additive manufacturing at a low cost and without the risk of having astronauts assemble the pieces.

In a paper published in EPJ Plus, Marco Tantardini and Enrico Flamini from the Italian Space Agency (ASI) make the case for taking part in the robotic phase of the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM).

For example, Altius Space Machines, based in Louisville, Colorado, is developing a sticky robotic arm to help guide spacecraft together for docking, traditionally a complex and delicate operation.

With a truck - size cargo bay, robotic arm, and — by Apollo standards — palatial crew quarters, the shuttle would be able to carry large satellites for release into orbit, haul up and piece together space - station components, and provide a temporary orbital home for scientists and engineers.

For example, the robotic arm on the International Space Station is operated by controlling the angles of its joints.

To develop KidsArm, SickKids partnered with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), the Canadian company that was behind the space shuttle's robotic arm and built the robotic system aboard the space station for the Canadian Space Agency (space shuttle's robotic arm and built the robotic system aboard the space station for the Canadian Space Agency (space station for the Canadian Space Agency (Space Agency (CSA).

IN SEPTEMBER 2009 a giant robotic arm beneath the International Space Station plucked an uncrewed Japanese cargo ship from the void of sSpace Station plucked an uncrewed Japanese cargo ship from the void of spacespace.

To cut lumber the team used motion tracking software and small mobile robots — an approach that takes up less space and is more cost - effective than large robotic arms.

Orbital Sciences Cygnus commercial cargo craft completed a month - long delivery mission to the International Space Station Friday when it was released from the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm at 6:40 a.m. EDT.

ARM will demonstrate advanced, high - power, high - throughput solar electric propulsion; advanced autonomous high - speed proximity operations at a low - gravity planetary body; controlled touchdown and liftoff with a multi-ton mass from a low - gravity planetary body, astronaut spacewalk activities for sample selection, extraction, containment and return; and mission operations of integrated robotic and crewed vehicle stack — all key components of future in - space operations for human missions to Mars.

From lasers to space harpoons to robotic arms, the challenge of cleaning up debris orbiting our planet has inspired some ideas that would make Isaac Asimov proud.

«Three examples we were thinking of specifically were in defusing bombs, working inside a damaged nuclear facility or operating the robotic arm on the International Space Station.»

The entire assembly will be held by the space station's robotic arm to expose the RGA probe to the outside vacuum of space near the space station.

The SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft is pictured just prior to being released by the International Space Station's Canadarm2 robotic arm on May 18, 2014, to allow it to head toward a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

Endeavour's robotic arm plucked the satellite from space on 23 June and lowered it into the shuttle's payload bay.

NASA announced that a crew member will be swung out within reach of the damaged panel on a 50 - foot boom attached to the space station's robotic arm as early as Saturday to attempt a fix, to reduce the risk of further damage that would require the panel to be jettisoned, thereby reducing the growing station's power supply.

On April 13, a remote controlled robotic arm installed the Space Storm Hunter instrument package that will make an extensive survey of terrestrial thunderstorms.

The collaborative demonstrated the first human uses of an implanted neural sensor and neural interface system to control robotic and prosthetic arms in three - dimensional space.

Other scientists are suggesting a net which could catch space junk or a gigantic robotic arm that could grab the space junk and pull it back to Earth.

At Parkland Magnet Middle School for Aerospace Technology on April 18, Mr. Bush watched a 6th grade class use robotic arms to pick up balls, saw students using technology to trace sunspots, and observed scientists from the space agency guiding students» studies.

She also switched from physics to engineering and helped to develop a robotic arm for the space shuttle.

Altius Space Machines is currently developing a robotic arm system it calls a «sticky boom», which can extend up to 100 meters, and uses electroadhesion to induce electrostatic charges onto any material (metal, plastics, glass, even asteroids) it comes into contact with, and then clamp onto the object because of the difference in charges.

The sticky boom can attach to any space object, even if it was not designed to be grappled by a robotic arm.

Led development of replacement software / hardware for control of space shuttle RMS (robotic arm) integrating video and controls on a touch screen monitor.