This section of the program is intended to mature technologies for robotics which will be used inside pressurized living space to maintain and service science payloads. This capability will off-load the requirements of intensive astronaut maintenance of these payloads, and permit operation of the payloads during periods when astronauts may not be present (i.e., during the man-tended phase of space station). The technologies incorporated into this portion include lightweight manipulators, redundant robotic safety systems, and self-deploying systems. The specific application areas include IVA robotics for Space Station Alpha and laboratory tending robotics for SpaceLab.
During FY 1995, technology development efforts in this section of the program have been suspended
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