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...
18 October 2017
Europe’s first all-electric telecom satellite breaks record
... integrated technologies is the inclusion of fully articulated thruster arms. “All-electric telecom satellites have been in service ... to elongate mission life.” Improved versions of the thruster arms and power unit will now be used in Eurostar Neo...
20 January 2021
"Mole" on NASA's InSight mission to dig no more
...tried one last time to use a scoop on InSight’s robotic arm to scrape soil onto the probe and tamp it down to provide... have gained invaluable experience operating the robotic arm. In fact, they used the arm and scoop in ways they never intended ...
July 2014
In search of strategic stability
...in world history. There was rivalry between two superpowers armed with the most destructive weaponry in the history of ... of a sustainable peace. It didn’t stop a mad nuclear arms race, but it virtually guaranteed that the weapons wouldn’t be used...
December 2014
A door closes
... of the cooperation in the Cold War was focused on arms control, in the post-Soviet period it expanded rapidly ...such concerns were handled more quietly in formal bilateral arms-control channels.) Re-thinking the relationship Finally, the deterioration...
September 2019
Extending the life of geostationary orbit satellites
... on client satellites, they can be deployed on many client satellites in a relatively short period of time. The MRV’s robotic arm offers a fast, simple, near-transient-free MEP installation on the client vehicle, minimising disturbances and allowing...
