Space.com has an update on the assembly of Dextre, the International Space Station’s new robot. Astronauts Rick Linnehan and Mike Foreman conducted a 7-hour spacewalk on Saturday in which they had to wrestle with a couple of stuck bolts. Aside from that, they were successful in assembling the Canadian-built maintenance robot on the end of Canadarm2.
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Engineers have successfully installed and activated the International Space Station’s new Dextre robot, ABC News reports. Engineers solved an earlier power problem that they linked to a faulty circuit.
The Canadian-built Dextre is a sophisticated robot that will perform maintenance and other tasks on the space station’s interior that are now performed by astronauts. Astronauts aboard the orbiting laboratory and engineers on the ground will be able to control the robot by remote control.
