{"id":316382,"date":"2025-11-14T07:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=467d9c956793cb9e936f291d1d3d4dc7"},"modified":"2025-11-14T07:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:09:01","slug":"a-robotic-helping-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=316382","title":{"rendered":"A Robotic Helping Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NASA astronaut Jonny Kim took this photo on July 23, 2025, as the International Space Station<\/a> orbited 259 miles above a cloudy Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. Visible in the image is the 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2<\/a> robotic arm, which extends from a data grapple fixture on the International Space Station\u2019s Harmony module. Attached to its latching end effector is Dextre, the station\u2019s fine-tuned robotic hand designed for delicate external maintenance tasks. Station crew use Canadarm2 to perform maintenance tasks, capture visiting spacecraft<\/a>, and move supplies, equipment, and even astronauts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Nov. 2, 2025, the space station reached 25 years of continuous human presence<\/a>. The orbital lab remains a training and proving ground for deep space missions, enabling NASA to focus on Artemis missions to the Moon and Mars.<\/p>\n

Image credit: NASA\/Jonny Kim<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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