ISS astronauts show what it’s like to capture a spacecraft with a robotic arm (video)

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A brand-new video reveals what it’s like to catch a checking out freight ship at the International Space Station (ISS)– particularly, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus automobile, which got here Feb. 1 with crucial products for the Expedition 70 team.

NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara collaborated at the controls of the Canadarm2 robotic arm, in the ISS wraparound Cupola window, to make the cosmic catch. Moghbeli published the video on X, previously Twitter, on Feb. 13

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Canadarm2 is the 2nd generation of robotic arm from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and is now handled by provider MDA. Utilized in the area shuttle bus program, the Canadarm series has actually helped on spacewalks, hefted spaceport station modules, consistently launched and scooped up the Hubble Space Telescope, and carried out numerous other jobs.

set up on the ISS in 2001 by CSA astronaut Chris Hadfield and NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski, Canadarm2 was signed up with by a robotic assistant called Dextre in 2008Dextre concentrates on moving smaller sized things around that need more mastery.

Canadarm2 was not precisely created for berthing spaceport station ships. It has actually shown so capable that it has actually done lots of these captures considering that May 2012, when a SpaceX Dragon freight ship got to the ISS for the very first time.

CSA and MDA are both dealing with follower robotic innovation, called Canadarm3. This arm– total with a big limb, a little limb and a “knapsack” that can bring products around– will be installed on NASA’s moon-orbiting Gateway station, which the company intends to begin putting together in the next couple of years.

CSA brokers seats and science on the ISS and NASA’s Artemis moon program utilizing its Canadarm series. Canadarm3 moneyed astronaut Jeremy Hansen‘s seat aboard the round-the-moon objective Artemis 2for instance, that ought to fly in 2025 or two. The next CSA astronaut on ISS will be Joshua Kutryk, In 2025

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