January 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
...them with the Canadarm2, the Space Station’s big robotic arm. We control the arm from a robotic work station inside, located in the ... astronaut’s favourite place! We can actually see the robotic arm through the windows of the Cupola. The Cupola, a ...
March 2016
Gravitational waves provide new window on the universe
...mirror, called a test mass, when it reaches the end of the arm. The two beams are then returned to a photodetector. If the ... the detector, its affect will be to lengthen one 4 km arm and shorten the other during one half-cycle of the wave; these...
September 2016
Moon or Mars - how logical is NASA’s next step?
... University in Montreal, Canada. His studies include the history of economic crises, legal history, and the global arms industry with a speciality in commercial weapons and aerospace. His honours thesis is ‘The Political Economy of Classical Powers...
January 2017
Blueprint for NASA’s journey to Mars
...node, and providing major elements like a cupola, robotics arm or solar arrays. Robotic science elements, such as rovers,...systems. This mission will include low gravity EVA operations during the ARM portion of the mission. A visit to an asteroid in ...
September 2017
Telescope targets enigmatic deep space mystery
...origin and confirming their extragalactic nature. Molonglo consists of two arms, each 1.6 km long and intersecting one another in the form ..., in the next couple of years the North-South arm of the Molongo inteferometer will come online as part of ...
June 2018
Striding through space
... In fact, he is mostly hidden behind the Shuttle’s manipulator arm. It may seem extraordinary to the lay person that astronauts, often... the MMU were re-designed to be done with manipulator arms or traditional tethered EVAs. The MMU lives on in SAFER...
