JMS - 26/6/2007 10:59 PMHow many complete RMS's are there in the inventory?
Ben - 26/6/2007 9:32 PMQuoteJMS - 26/6/2007 10:59 PMHow many complete RMS's are there in the inventory?Five were built; one destroyed on Challenger. Four left, all still in service.
Oberon_Command - 26/6/2007 11:54 PMQuoteBen - 26/6/2007 9:32 PMQuoteJMS - 26/6/2007 10:59 PMHow many complete RMS's are there in the inventory?Five were built; one destroyed on Challenger. Four left, all still in service.I take it that Columbia didn't have one installed when we lost her?
Jorge - 27/6/2007 7:22 AMMany of the dedicated science missions and deploy flights did not; neither did some ISS flights that were relying on the station RMS.QuoteAre you sure about the ISS flights? I can't remember any mission without RMS.Analyst
Are you sure about the ISS flights? I can't remember any mission without RMS.Analyst
Analyst - 27/6/2007 1:47 AMQuoteJorge - 27/6/2007 7:22 AMMany of the dedicated science missions and deploy flights did not; neither did some ISS flights that were relying on the station RMS.Are you sure about the ISS flights? I can't remember any mission without RMS.
Jorge - 27/6/2007 7:22 AMMany of the dedicated science missions and deploy flights did not; neither did some ISS flights that were relying on the station RMS.
gordo - 27/6/2007 6:53 PMif you read through the manifest there have been 5 Canadarms. 201, 202, 301, 302 (destroyed on Challenger), and 303.
jamesm - 28/6/2007 7:02 AM202 represented a flight spare end effector from the origninal program (which is an interesting story in itself).
The first arm was Canada's contribution to NASA's Space Shuttle Program. Subsequently, NASA ordered four additional units which have resulted in over $900 million in export sales for Canada.
gordo - 27/6/2007 11:53 PMif you read through the manifest there have been 5 Canadarms. 201, 202, 301, 302 (destroyed on Challenger), and 303.
ShuttleDiscovery - 28/6/2007 2:45 PMQuotegordo - 27/6/2007 11:53 PMif you read through the manifest there have been 5 Canadarms. 201, 202, 301, 302 (destroyed on Challenger), and 303.So which 3 canadarms are in use today? 202, 301 and 303?
Ben - 29/6/2007 1:32 PMI'm also a little confused by saying that 202 is not an arm, rather a spare end effector.
Moving on to the production of a third IBA, NASA will use some of the currently available hardware to make up the new boom.'A 3rd OBSS Sensor Package 1 is in development and can be completed under the OBSS sustaining engineering budget. A 3rd OBSS Sensor Package 2 has already been delivered. A 3rd IBA will need to be developed. Use spare SRMS booms. Total number of SRMS units will be reduced from four to three.'
Ben - 29/6/2007 5:57 PMIf one SRMS was used to make an OBSS, then there were indeed four arms (five total) as stated on the CSA site. Now there are three, if that is the case.
jamesm - 30/6/2007 11:34 AMI shud know - I work for MDA at the Brampton facility - the home of the Canadarms and the MSS.
Canadarm was designed, developed and built by MDA, under contract to the National Research Council of Canada. The first arm was Canada's contribution to NASA's Space Shuttle Program. Subsequently, NASA ordered four additional units which have resulted in over $900 million in export sales for Canada.
Five Canadarms were built and delivered to NASA on April 1981, January 1983, December 1983, March 1985, and August 1993. The arms on the three shuttles in service—Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour—are still being used.