The space business in Canada has a beacon of hope -- a new robot arm that will take advantage of artificial intelligence to work on NASA's planned Lunar Gateway station in the 2020s.
Share to twitterArtist's conception of Canadarm3, a robotic arm planned for use on NASA's Lunar Gateway space station.Canada is planning on a $1.5 billion USD investment in the coming two decades based a risky bet -- that NASA will continue with its planned Lunar Gateway space station in the 2020s. Late last week, the country announced it would contribute a robotic arm called"Canadarm3" to Gateway.
In an interview, he said he found the announcement"fascinating" because"it's way out ahead of the actual situation of how real the Gateway is and certainly, saying 'We want to be part of it' helps make it real."Gateway power package. But taking these issues into account, including Canada in the Gateway plan makes it a little more likely to go forward since international agreements are harder to break, said Roger Launius, a former chief historian for NASA and former curator at the National Air and Space Museum.
"I think all the big things we do in space are going to be done in an international setting. They have to be, and Canada has been involved in that at least from the space shuttle era, and especially during the station era, and they are part of this consortium. If they were not involved, that would be the real news story.
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