MDA Space has received a contract from the Canadian Space Agency worth $1 billion Canadian for continued work on a robotic arm system for the lunar Gateway.
  • @[email protected]English
    2•4 months ago

    I wonder what its main purpose is. I’m pretty sure all Gateway modules and visiting vehicles dock together, so they don’t need an arm to help berth them the way ISS modules, Cygnus, and Dreamchaser do. So this is mainly for moving external payloads around? And holding astronauts during EVAs?