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RRM and Dextre Accomplish the Most Dexterous Space Robot Maneuver

NASA image captured March 2012

 

The Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) completed the most dexterous space robot maneuver to date when the Dextre robot’s 12-foot arm used an RRM to tool successfully snip two twisted wires, each the thickness of two sheets of paper, with a mere few millimeters of clearance– a task essential to the satellite refueling process.

 

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Uploaded on January 14, 2013
Taken on January 14, 2013