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.

Part of Robotics

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.

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