NASA : Prototype Capture System, Mock Asteroid Help Simulate Mission Sequence.-

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A prototype of the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) robotic capture module system is tested with a mock asteroid boulder in its clutches at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The robotic portion of ARM is targeted for launch in 2021.

Located in the center’s Robotic Operations Center, the mockup helps engineers understand the intricate operations required to collect a multi-ton boulder from an asteroid’s surface. The hardware involved here includes three space frame legs with foot pads, two seven degrees of freedom arms that have with microspine gripper “hands” to grasp onto the boulder. 

NASA and students from West Virginia University built the asteroid mockup from rock, styrofoam, plywood and an aluminum endoskeleton. The mock boulder arrived in four pieces and was assembled inside the ROC to help visualize the engagement between the prototype system and a potential capture target. 

Inside the ROC, engineers can use industrial robots, a motion-based platform, and customized algorithms to create simulations of space operations for robotic spacecraft. The ROC also allows engineers to simulate robotic satellite servicing operations, fine tuning systems and controllers and optimizing performance factors for future missions when a robotic spacecraft might be deployed to repair or refuel a satellite in orbit. 

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Last Updated: Nov. 1, 2016

Editor: Sarah Loff

Tags:  Asteroid Redirect Mission, Goddard Space Flight Center, Image of the Day, Journey to Mars, Robotics, Technology,

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NASA :Robotic Eyes to Assist Satellite Repairs in Orbit .- Ojos robóticos del satélite Ayuda a reparaciones en órbita

Hola amigos: A VUELO DE UN QUINDE EL BLOG., La NASA está desarrollando y demostrando tecnologías al servicio y reparación de satélites en órbitas lejanas. Nave espacial robótica - probablemente funciona con joysticks por los técnicos en la planta - podría llevar a cabo las manos en las maniobras, no los seres humanos utilizando herramientas especializadas robóticos y otros, como fue el caso de las naves espaciales como la baja de la Tierra en órbita el telescopio espacial Hubble.
Esta fotografía se ve de cerca a una de las herramientas que se podrían utilizar para el servicio por satélite en el futuro: the Visual Inspection Poseable Invertebrate Robot (VIPIR), un endoscopio articular robótico equipado con un segundo motorizado, zoom de la cámara de objetivo que ayudar a los operadores de misión que necesitan ojos robóticos para solucionar anomalías, investigar huelgas de micrometeoritos, y llevar a cabo trabajos de reparación de satélite teleoperados. NASA demostró con éxito las capacidades de VIPIR a principios de este año.
VIPIR se utilizaría en NASA’s Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM), ahora en la segunda fase de su demostración en órbita a bordo de la Estación Espacial Internacional. RRM está utilizando manitas robótico de dos brazos de la Agencia Espacial Canadiense, Dextre, para mostrar cómo los robots futuros podrían dar servicio y repostar satélites en el espacio. Durante la tercera fase del mecanismo de reacción rápida, el equipo de capacidades de servicio Oficina Satélite del Centro de Vuelo Espacial Goddard de la NASA planea demostrar la transferencia de xenón, un gas noble incoloro denso potencialmente útiles para la alimentación de motores iónicos.

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NASA is developing and demonstrating technologies to service and repair satellites in distant orbits. Robotic spacecraft — likely operated with joysticks by technicians on the ground — would carry out the hands-on maneuvers, not human beings using robotic and other specialized tools, as was the case for spacecraft like the low-Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.

This photograph looks closely at one of the tools that could be used for satellite servicing in the future: the Visual Inspection Poseable Invertebrate Robot (VIPIR), a robotic, articulating borescope equipped with a second motorized, zoom-lens camera that would help mission operators who need robotic eyes to troubleshoot anomalies, investigate micrometeoroid strikes, and carry out teleoperated satellite-repair jobs. NASA successfully demonstrated VIPIR’s capabilities earlier this year.

VIPIR would be used in NASA’s Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM), now in the second phase of its on-orbit demonstration aboard the International Space Station. RRM is using the Canadian Space Agency’s two-armed robotic handyman, Dextre, to show how future robots could service and refuel satellites in space. During RRM’s third phase, the Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center plans to demonstrate the transfer of xenon, a colorless, dense noble gas potentially useful for powering ion engines.

Image Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn

Last Updated: Nov. 3, 2015

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Tags:  Goddard Space Flight Center, Image of the Day, Robotics, Technology,

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