Canadarm: the Space Shuttle's robotic arm
Canadarm: brazo robótico del transbordador espacial
- Date
- 13 de noviembre de 1981 · confidence high
- Place
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Credited to
- SPAR Aerospace and Canada's National Research Council
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A 15 m manipulator arm that loaded and deployed satellites from the Shuttle's cargo bay, and was used to repair Hubble and assemble the ISS. It first flew on the STS-2 mission.
Canada funded the first arm and NASA ordered four more. SPAR's plant was in Malton, now part of Mississauga/Toronto.
What it led to
- satellite capture and in-orbit repairs
- Canadarm2 and Dextre on the ISS
- the Canadian astronaut programme (from 1984)