Category Archives: In Space Infrastructure

FISO: Continuum trunk & tentacle robots for space – Ian Walker, Clemson

The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. Slides and movies are available in a zip file and there is an audio (mp3) available for the talk, Continuum Trunk and Tentacle Robots for Space Applications, Ian Walker , Clemson University – April.30.2014.

Here is a sampling of Walker’s slide’s:

Overview

TraditionalRobots

TrunksAndTentacles

Octarm

Designs

 

 

Summary

Video: Space to Ground – ISS report

The latest episode of NASA’s Space to Ground report on activities aboard the International Space Station:

Video: Astronauts on spacewalk replace balky relay box outside the ISS

On Wednesday at the International Space Station:

… Expedition 39 Flight Engineers Rick Mastracchio and Steve Swanson of NASA conducted a spacewalk April 23 to replace a backup computer relay box on the station’s S0 (s-zero) truss. The relay box, which failed April 11, is called a multiplexer-demultiplexer, and assists in providing insight and commanding for the station’s truss systems and associated hardware.

Here are some highlights of the EVA:

 

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FISO: Planetary exploration and the Plutonium-238 connection

The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. Both slides (ppt) and audio (mp3) are available for the talk, Planetary Exploration and the Plutonium-238 Connection, Ralph McNutt , APL/JHU – April.16.2014.

A sampling of the presentation slides:

RPS_ColdWar

 

NoAlts

 

Status

 

CurrentPlans

FISO: International collaboration for human exploratin beyond LEO

The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. Both slides (pptx) and audio (mp3) are available for the talk, Evaluating International Collaboration for Human Exploration Beyond LEO by Emanuele Capparelli, Skolkovo Inst. & Natasha Bosanac , Purdue Univ. – April 9, 2014

IntCollaboration

Findings