Two spacewalkers at the InternationalSpaceStation activated the facility's new robotic arm for the first time on Thursday, April 28.
Two spacewalkers at the International Space Station activated the facility’s new robotic arm for the first time on Thursday, April 28.
The ERA arrived at the station in July last year but it remained covered with thermal blankets until Thursday. The station's new robotic arm from @ESA has been released from its restraints on the Nauka module and is now in motion. https://t.co/yuOTrYN8CV pic.twitter.com/5h7PHORXuM Getting to this stage has been a long time coming. The ERA was designed more than 30 years ago, and various technical issues over the last 20 years caused it to miss three planned missions to the ISS.
While the space station already has two operational robotic arms — Canada’s Canadarm2 and the Japanese Experiment Module Remote Manipulator System — the ERA is the first to be deployed outside the Russian section of the ISS, and so will give spacewalkers greater reach when conducting maintenance and upgrade work outside the facility.
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