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hello and welcome to space here from the city of montreal in Canada a place
that's well known for culture and music but is also home to the teams that
control the robots that built the international space station and the
people who are developing Rovers for the Moon and Mars we met them to find out
how they overcome the unique challenges of using robots in space robots are an
essential companion to mankind in space unique tools that make it possible to
live and work in orbit and one of the hardest-working space robots is the
canadarm2 on the International Space Station
its masters are to be found in Montreal at the canadian space agency
these are the people who build and control the space robots and train
others to use them from his control room operations engineer match here Carol can
steer the canadarm2 directly or instruct astronauts in space and a few months
we'll be using the camera to catch a dragon resupply capsule that capsule
cannot dark on its own with a space station
it matches the heading and speed of the space station comes within 10 meters of
the station and astronauts inside will use a condom to to grab on the SpaceX
capsule they have to to make sure that they grab on quickly otherwise you know
a small perturbation will cause the vehicle to diverge quite rapidly
canada which has partnered with the european space agency since the nineteen
seventies launched its first can Adam space robot on the American shuttle back
in nineteen eighty-one accepted in the mandolin as a secure it was a request
from NASA to build an arm for the space shuttle and then designed and built in
Canada technet some-some was persecuted and from then on each shuttles and its
space on which is used for most of their mission . afterwards when it was time to
design the ISS canada proposed making a new on the canadarm2 for the space
station ISS percent
that arm and dexter the mobile servicing robot are a lasting source of
satisfaction for the country Canada built the canadarm2 and Karen to build
the space station everybody should be credible
each and every Easter nasa astronaut has to train on canadian space robotics it
begins with a scale model of the ISS and a lesson from engineer commuted janessa
what we do here in this location at the model is we have the astronauts come and
they actually use these models configure them you can move them around and they
will configure each of the joints roll y'all pit and they'll put it in the
initial configuration for their operation and they'll actually put it on
the station and go through motion of the arm to the operation that there are
going to do
it's important because we don't want any collisions in space either collision
self collisions between the robotics themselves of collisions between the
joints collisions with vba that would be catastrophic or even collisions with the
station which could cause a rapid depressed and then we'd be in a really
high emergency situation while the daily operations of Canada mom continued csa
engineers are also working on robot Rovers for the Moon and Mars you see dr.
that over this is a robot that we've just designed with a canadian company so
the aim is to see if we can send robots for planetary exploration rover .
McGrath not been it there so we're aiming for the Moon and Mars of work
early so you have to find wheels that can adapt and resist the cold it can be
minus 150-200 degrees or so
rubber wheels don't work you have to be able to adapt two obstacles and be
really tough after that there's up stacked at cases start the long term
vision is that such Rovers would be mounted with drills and prospective
devices to search for useful resources that could help mankind survive in space
so quickly we were able to find water on the moon but that would allow us to use
them as a base make
fueling make oxygen in either so if we had a daughter and we've shown that
there are traces of it there then the next step is to show if we're capable of
extracting water and be able to do something with it with sufficient
quantities so that's a type of mission that we could do that would then allow
us to pursue lunar exploration us on in there
the history of space robotics has been one of man and machine working
hand-in-hand but the future is likely to be one of autonomy as robots work
remotely saving astronauts from hazardous tasks
whatever something can be done robotically were asked to do so i'm
talking about cutting or moving thermal blankets on screwing caps and cutting
tethers and you even bringing a nozzle and pumping fuel in the and the
satellite and that really represent a promising Avenue for robotics in the
future longer-term canada and the other is partners are looking beyond
near-earth orbit to a station deeper in space
pushing it up some of the loop you won the next step will be to go further
let's orbit since we talked about this is Luna station in the space between the
Earth and the moon and death again if we construct a space station habitat in
that area
it's sure that we're going to meet space robotics for Delbert successor
away from robots now and 12 regular update on the exomars mission the
spacecraft is on its way to the red planet right now when it gets there it's
going to be looking for me thin gas that's linked to life but could be
coming from other sources to as find out more in destination Mars
hello my name is nick thomas i'm the principal investigator of the cassis
instrument a high-resolution camera on the exomars trace gas orbiter cassis is
designed to look at dynamic processes on the surface of Mars and so we'll be
looking at things that are happening that changes that are occurring on the
surface
there are volcanic mechanisms that can produce me thing it's got very little to
do with life in that particular case that we know that they're meteorite
impact on the surface of Mars this exposes fresh material from under the
surface and that fresh material could be containing some trace gas material like
anything for example we also have evidence for avalanches and Levine's
that might be gas trapped there it's that exposed get into the atmosphere and
who knows maybe it's detectable with the teaching those instruments production of
methane is not necessarily to do with life it's there are other processes that
can produce me thing so looking for life is not not trivial and proving that it's
theirs
it's very difficult that's all from us here in Montreal you can keep up-to-date
with space news and watch other episodes of destination Mars on your news.com
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