Airbus Defence and Space, part of the Europe-based global Airbus group, announced on Monday that it had installed the European Robotic Arm (ERA) on to the ‘Nauka’ multipurpose laboratory module (MLM) for the International Space Station (ISS). The installation included the equipping of the Nauka module with two ERA control stations. Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands oversaw the development, integration and testing of the ERA, including managing the development of subsystems across Europe. It did so on behalf of the European Space Agency (ESA), which contributed the ERA to the Russian space agency Roscosmos for the MLM.
from Engineering News | Home https://ift.tt/3wioQOO
