Component
Robotic Arm
A jointed manipulator used to move cargo, service hardware, capture spacecraft, or collect samples. The Shuttle's Canadarm helped assemble the Space Station and the permanently-installed Canadarm2 services it; planetary landers carry smaller sampling arms.
Highlights
- ›Canadarm2 builds and services the ISS
Knowledge connections
- Part ofRobotics
- Associated withIn-Space Assembly
- Associated withOn-Orbit Servicing
- Associated withAutonomous Construction
Sources
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- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
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- ESAEuropean Space Agency
European missions, observatories, and space science imagery.