{"id":138882,"date":"2025-11-14T05:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138882\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T05:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:13:09","slug":"a-robotic-helping-hand-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/138882\/","title":{"rendered":"A Robotic Helping Hand &#8211; NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA astronaut Jonny Kim took this photo on July 23, 2025, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/reference\/international-space-station\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asc-csa.gc.ca\/eng\/iss\/canadarm2\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">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, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/blogs\/spacestation\/2025\/09\/18\/robotic-arm-maneuvering-cygnus-for-station-installation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">capture visiting spacecraft<\/a>, and move supplies, equipment, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nasa2explore\/54312834285\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">astronauts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 2, 2025, the space station reached <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/celebrating-25-years-of-continuous-human-presence-aboard-the-international-space-station\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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<p>Image credit: NASA\/Jonny Kim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA astronaut Jonny Kim took this photo on July 23, 2025, as the International Space Station orbited 259&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,1658,60,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-138882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-international-space-station-iss","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}