After 20 Years, the International Space Station Finishes Its Robot Arm

After 20 Years, the International Space Station Finishes Its Robot Arm

It has taken 20 years, but it is finally a reality . Next Thursday, July 15, the European Robotic Arm will take off into space, which will dock with the International Space Station on the 23rd of the same month. This event has been delayed countless times due to various failures that have taken place since the 90s, but finally everything has been solved and this device will be in space helping astronauts.

This robot will take off into outer space with the help of a rocket provided by Russia and with voluminous measurements (more than 10 meters long), it will work like a crane and will help cosmonauts to facilitate their movement.

Although the Russians will help to get this robot up and running, this country has already spoken and once the international agreements on the International Space Station are finalized in three years, Russia will build its own station in space.

An aid for astronauts

But it will not only make it easier for them to walk through the structure of the International Space Station, since it will also serve to make repairs or change parts if necessary or even to transport loads that were of great weight and that a human being was unable to transport them by his own. account.

Brazo robot

The advantages of this machine is that it offers several possibilities when it comes to controlling it and it can be moved both only thanks to its technology and being managed by the astronauts through a system of controls.

Therefore, this implies that it can be working both at the moment and scheduled to carry out a series of tasks and jobs. In addition, it has a series of cameras with electromagnetic radiation that will allow monitoring the surface of the International Space Station.

A long project

This robotic arm has been developed by a group of companies related to space, highlighting Dutch, German companies or the European Space Agency itself. For the most part, the most collaborative body has been the political administration of the Netherlands.

Brazo robot

After the number of space missions that have been carried out in the last decades and the number of space companies that have sprung up, it seems quite strange that this project has gone forward after two decades.

It is also foreseen that more machines will continue to be manufactured that allow these devices to carry out their work automatically in space, on their own and without any kind of aid, which would make it possible that there would be no need for human beings in space.