Over three decades and 388\u00a0million miles later, the arm proved to be an essential partner for astronauts and an indispensable solution for both the expected and unexpected demands of human spaceflight.<\/p>\n
Having worked with Canadarm technology for over 40 years, Mike Hiltz, Senior Manager of Mission Operations at MDA Space, has had a front-row seat to the arm\u2019s role\u2014as well as its successor\u2019s, Canadarm2\u2014in shaping space exploration.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom our mission-critical role supporting more than 20 astronomy and Earth science payloads\u2014including the Hubble Space Telescope\u2014that expanded humanity\u2019s understanding of the universe, to laying the cornerstone of the International Space Station by joining the Russian Zarya module to the American Unity node in 1998, and then going on to help assemble the entire station, MDA Space and Canadarm have been instrumental in countless historic moments in spaceflight, a proud legacy of technical ingenuity that continues to this day,\u201d said Hiltz.<\/p>\n
Pioneering the past, present, and future of space exploration<\/p>\n
During the ceremony, David\u00a0Michelson\u2014the milestone proposer, the past Chair of the IEEE \u00a0History Committee, and current Chair of the IEEE Communications History Committee\u2014stressed that the Milestone program reminds the public and policymakers alike of the contributions of the engineering profession, recognizes the communities that contributed to important technical innovations, and encourages the historical scholarship that ensures the historical narrative concerning such technical innovations is complete, correct, objective.\u00a0David\u00a0Bart, Vice\u2011Chair of the IEEE History Committee and Chair of the Milestone Program Subcommittee, added that this dedication was especially momentous as IEEE\u2019s 300th milestone, as well as a full-circle moment for Canada, since the very first Canadian IEEE milestone celebrated another major space achievement\u2014the Alouette\u2013ISIS satellite program.<\/p>\n
Joined by current\u00a0MDA\u00a0Space employees who worked on Canadarm over the years, Holly Johnson, VP of Robotics and Space Operations and David Michelson unveiled the commemorative bronze plaque bearing the official IEEE citation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over three decades and 388\u00a0million miles later, the arm proved to be an essential partner for astronauts and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-770857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}