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01/10/2005 01:07 PM ID: 45522 Permalink   

Canadian Firm Given Hubble Robotic Repair Mission
 

Canadian firm MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) Ltd has signed a deal with NASA that will see the company responsible for repairing the Hubble Space Telescope. MDA already has a good reputation for space robotics.

It was MDA, through their MD Robotics group, that developed the robotic arm currently used during shuttle missions. The deal with NASA is said to be worth US$154 million. A decision on a robotic repair mission to the Hubble will be made this summer.

 		 
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  The two...  
 previous manned repair missions were extremely difficult and challanging for humans to do. How do they expect robots to do it? I don't think the technology exits to do these missions robotically. There are too many variables. What will the robot do when it can't get the bay doors open? Yankee human ingenuity did it on the first mission. I rest my case. 
 by: lurker     01/10/2005 07:06 PM     
  CanadARM a fabulous success, so ...  
 ... the robotic arm, used extensively on Shuttle & possibly ISS missions, developed by Canada has been a terrific success. So, I think we can anticipate another triumph from Canadian engineers.

Also, adaptive optics used on Earth-bound telescopes have made much of the capability of the HST redundant.		 
 by: Luhker     01/10/2005 08:32 PM     
  There's a big...  
 difference in the robotic arm and a sophisticated robotic repair technician. That's comparing a calculator to super computer. I don't think the technology exists to accomplish the mission without a spacewalk by humans. The Hubble is still a valuable telescope and can view the edges of the universe that can't be seen from earth by any earth based telescope. 
 by: lurker     01/11/2005 03:35 AM     
  Them repairing robots?  
 It is likly the reason that they have the repair contract because of they are experts at robots. Get one of their engeneers trained up so they can do a space walk (no need to pilot anything, normal astronaughts could be used for that), and you have a pretty handy person doing the work on the telescope. After all issnt it a big complex robot of sorts? 
 by: ssxxxssssss   01/11/2005 04:03 AM     
  Hubble will be junked:  
 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/  
 by: lurker     01/22/2005 04:07 AM     
 
 
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