July 2021
Canadarm2 - 20 years of Canadian space robotics on the ISS
...1984, the US invited international friends and allies to join them in the Space Station programme. The success of Canadarm on the Space Shuttle led naturally to a study of potential Canadian participation in the programme. Marc Garneau’s first flight...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
... Exploration (SpaceTREx) Laboratory. Jekan has a bachelor’s in aerospace engineering from the University of Toronto. He worked on Canadarm, Canadarm 2 and the DARPA Orbital Express missions at MDA Space Missions. Jekan obtained his Ph.D. in space...
June 2018
Striding through space
... spacewalker without a safety line. As he floated over the cargo bay, viewed from overhead by the TV camera on the Canadarm remote manipulator, he announced: “Well, that may have been one small step for Neil, but it’s a heck...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... also robots operating on Mars, but those have significant differences from robots that remain in orbit.) The Canadarm used on the US Space Shuttle and Canadarm2 on the International Space Station (ISS) are well known. But...
21 October 2019
Russia could join US-led Lunar Gateway programme
... its participation as well, contributing a robotic arm that Canadian Space Agency president Sylvain Laporte fondly referred to as "Canadarm 3", after its predecessors on the NASA Space Shuttles and the ISS. The Trump administration - including NASA...
