Dextre Almost Ready For ISS Operations
ST. HUBERT, QUEBEC — Dextre, the special-purpose dexterous manipulator sometimes described as the hand for Canadarm2 on the International Space Station (ISS), is almost ready to begin serving as a backup for spacewalking astronauts and cosmonauts.
Flight controllers and robotics engineers at the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) here and at NASA’s Mission Control ...