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Canadarm Earns 300th IEEE Milestone After 30 Years Handling Shuttle Payloads

IEEE Spectrum 4 hours ago 1 min read ↗ Original

The Shuttle Remote Manipulator System, known as Canadarm, has been designated the 300th IEEE Milestone, recognizing its three decades of payload-handling operations on space shuttle missions.

WHY IT MATTERS

This is an honorary designation rather than a technical change, so it carries no direct engineering consequences. The milestone recognizes a robotic arm system that has been in continuous operational use across shuttle and ISS missions since the 1980s.

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The three things worth knowing

The Canadarm, formally the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System, is a robotic arm attached to space shuttles and the ISS for handling tools, satellites, and other payloads.

Canadarm2 was used in 2020 to install the Cygnus space freighter to the ISS Unity module, demonstrating continued operational relevance.

IEEE has designated the Canadarm as its 300th Milestone, recognizing 30 years of shuttle payload operations.

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