Marc Boucher: August 2010 Archives

Today the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) issued through the tender service MERX a request for two separate firms to carry out a study on the RADARSAT Next Generation Options Study. The primary objective of the study work is to perform an in-depth evaluation of the Department of Defence (DND) requirements for surveillance radars and identify implementation options in a system that would enter into operation after the initial deployment of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission. The RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) is a $497 million program which will tentatively launch three Earth-observation satellites between 2014 and 2015 and is follow-on to the successful Radarsat-1 and Radarsat-2 programs.

See the steps of Dextre's final exam.

Working from his perch on the end of Canadarm2, Dextre will close in on his target, unbolt the first circuit breaker and remove it. He will then back up slightly to give himself more room to rotate at the waist in order to align his free hand with the second circuit breaker, and will grab it and slide it out. Afterwards, Dextre will move back again to give himself room to flip a second time so that he can align the first circuit breaker with the empty slot, and will slide it into place. He'll then return to the first worksite and replace the second breaker.

Voir les étapes de l'examen final de Dextre.

Dextre sera d'abord transporté à bout de bras par le Canadarm2 jusqu'à son lieu de travail et s'approchera ensuite de sa cible, déboulonnera le premier disjoncteur et le retirera. Puis il reculera légèrement, ce qui lui permettra de disposer de suffisamment d'espace pour pivoter à hauteur de la taille afin d'aligner sa main libre avec le second disjoncteur, qu'il saisira et enlèvera à son tour. Ensuite, Dextre reculera à nouveau de manière à pouvoir se tourner encore une fois pour aligner le premier disjoncteur avec l'orifice, puis le mettre en place. Finalement, il retournera à l'endroit où se trouvait le premier disjoncteur, et y installera le second.

Entrevue avec Mathieu Caron, Dextre Contrôleur de vol.

Dextre est le robot le plus perfectionné jamais construit selon l'agence spatiale canadienne.
Il est d'effectuer des travaux courants d'entretien et de réparation, comme le changement de batteries et le remplacement de caméras à l'extérieur de l'ISS.

Leslie Sponder is an Operations Engineer and Mission Planner who works with the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, or as it is better know as, Dextre.

Dextre is the most sophisticated space robot ever built according to the Canadian Space Agency. It is designed to help in maintaining the health of the International Space Station (ISS). Dextre's role is to perform maintenance work and repairs like changing batteries and replacing cameras outside the ISS or to assist in spacewalks.

Entrevue avec Serge Gaudreau, Dextre Concepteur principal de systèmes didactiques.

Dextre est le robot le plus perfectionné jamais construit selon l'agence spatiale canadienne.
Il est d'effectuer des travaux courants d'entretien et de réparation, comme le changement de batteries et le remplacement de caméras à l'extérieur de l'ISS .

Daniel Lefebvre is a Staff Systems Engineer who works with the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, or as it is better know as, Dextre.

Dextre is the most sophisticated space robot ever built according to the Canadian Space Agency. It is designed to help in maintaining the health of the International Space Station (ISS). Dextre's role is to perform maintenance work and repairs like changing batteries and replacing cameras outside the ISS or to assist in spacewalks.

NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency have joined to share resources and expertise on three future science missions to Mars. In three separate robotic missions (the first in 2016), both agencies will study the possibility of past life on the Red Planet, as well as test communications relays and other geochemical and biological mysteries. The third mission, in the 2020's, will return to Earth a sample taken from the Martian surface. Canada will co-develop the MATMOS instrument onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.

Canadians will once again be at the forefront of the ongoing exploration of Mars as it was announced yesterday by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) that they would be contributing to ExoMars mission. Canada's contribution will be the shared development with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the Mars Atmospheric Trace Molecule Occultation Spectrometer (MATMOS) instrument onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. MATMOS is scheduled for launch in 2016.