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Canada Arm 2
Posted: 24 Dec 05 11:57 AM |
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Long: 17,6 m
Weight: 1,800 kg
It can move up to 116,000 kg
The tubes are re-inforced Carbon-Fiber, because it is lightweigh and rigid.
Material:
A graphite
(IM7)/PEEK
Composite
It have seven joints.
It assists the Astronauts so they can do jobs far out on the station, it can hold very large items and move them around the station.
The arm can move around the station and change positions a lot of places, it can grap on somewhere, plug-in, and then let go with the other side,so the wrist becomes the new shoulder.
It can crawl all over the station that way and the Mobile Base System has Four Power Data Grapple Fixtures on it, so the Arm can plug into one of them, and then the mobile base rolls down thetrack on the truss to the work site.
It plugs into one of the four, depending on which one is in the best position.
There are now Five Power and Data Grapple Fixtures on the ISS, one on the Desting Lab and four on the Mobile System.
The ISS started on the 1998 and planed to be built by the year 2010, and it will weight 450 tons (estimated)
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