Robot Arm Will Install New Earth-Facing Cameras On Space Station

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Robot Arm Will Install New Earth-Facing Cameras On Space Station

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 1, 2014 @09:28PM from the all-the-better-to-see-you-with dept.

SternisheFan writes Canada's robotic Canadarm2 will install the next two Urthecast cameras on the International Space Station, removing the need for astronauts to go outside to do the work themselves. Urthecast plans to place two Earth-facing cameras on the United States side of the station (on Node 3) to add to the two they already have on the Russian Zvezda module. Technical problems with the cameras forced the Russians to do an extra spacewalk to complete the work earlier this year.

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Canada needs to up their game by haruchai · 2014-10-01 21:40 · Score: -1, Flamebait

After all these years, the Canadarm is their claim to fame in the space race?
At this point, it must be embarrasing to the average Canadian.

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1. Re:Canada needs to up their game by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2014-10-01 21:48 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  The new version is biofuel-powered: it runs on space-grade maple syrup. So there's progress to be proud of!
  
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2. Re:Canada needs to up their game by Tyr07 · 2014-10-01 21:58 · Score: 1
  
  Yes but it's very difficult to find naturally, but we may have found a planet, it takes five years to get to that may have an abundance of unobmapleium.
3. Re:Canada needs to up their game by haruchai · 2014-10-01 22:26 · Score: 2
  
  "unobmapleium" - ROFL. You, sir, have won the Internet for today - and the sun hasn't even come up yet where I live.
  
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4. Re:Canada needs to up their game by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-01 22:34 · Score: 0
  
  Please restate comment as a hockey analogy.
5. Re: Canada needs to up their game by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-01 22:47 · Score: 0
  
  Please choke on your Tim Horton's, you useless canuck
6. Re:Canada needs to up their game by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-01 22:51 · Score: 0
  
  Yeah, what the world needs is for everyone to be a leader and nobody to just want to make a decent contribution. That'll work out.
7. Re:Canada needs to up their game by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-01 22:58 · Score: 1
  
  It's working out great for Obama: he's Dear Leader of the remains of the free world, and he hasn't made one decent contribution yet.
8. Re: Canada needs to up their game by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-01 23:02 · Score: 0
  
  Oh thanks, I'll take a coffee too, eh.
9. Re: Canada needs to up their game by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-01 23:23 · Score: -1
  
  Wrong.
  How about providing uninsured americans with healthcare, creating jobs to help unemployed fond work in the recession, helping keep americans safe from terrorists by shooting them with drones, etc
10. Re:Canada needs to up their game by Tyr07 · 2014-10-02 00:33 · Score: 1
  
  The sun isn't up where I live either, I just happen to work graveyard shifts.
11. Re:Canada needs to up their game by slackoon · 2014-10-02 02:53 · Score: 0
  
  The new version is biofuel-powered: it runs on space-grade maple syrup. So there's progress to be proud of!
  Maple Syrup...Maple Syrup. it's not like that stuff grows on trees...oh wait a second... seriously though, just send up good old Canadian Astronauts Chris Hadfield. Those guys have maple in the blood. His sweat alone would power those cameras for years
12. Re:Canada needs to up their game by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-02 03:24 · Score: 1
  
  So what country needs to be embarrassed by the useless douchebag which is you?
13. Re:Canada needs to up their game by gstoddart · 2014-10-02 04:13 · Score: 1
  
  Nah, we keep the space-grade maple syrup for domestic consumption.
  What you guys get is just corn syrup and food coloring. ;-)
  
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14. Re:Canada needs to up their game by Stan92057 · 2014-10-02 05:00 · Score: 1
  
  lol which is a lot better tasting :} man i remember the first and only time i ate real Canadian maple syrup,I spit it out is was so bad. Must be an acquired taste build up from childhood.
  
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15. Re:Canada needs to up their game by davester666 · 2014-10-02 05:46 · Score: 1
  
  hell, it's not even a "robot arm", as that implies it can operate on it's own somehow. It's only a remotely-controlled arm.
  Lame, eh.
  
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16. Re:Canada needs to up their game by haruchai · 2014-10-02 08:24 · Score: 1
  
  ?? I've had the real stuff many times back in the '80s - it was freakin' awesome.
  
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17. Re:Canada needs to up their game by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-02 08:30 · Score: 0
  
  I would say "yours" but you've got that in the bag.
18. Re:Canada needs to up their game by Stan92057 · 2014-10-02 13:34 · Score: 1
  
  Can only speak for myself and my experience it tasted bad. And i like natural stuff, i make my own sausage,Kielbasa,pickles, a lot of stuff. Its a lot of work but the payoff is great. Not going to lie though i love sweets i love processed syrup 1000%. I know a lot of work goes into making real maple syrup but i don't like. it life goes on
  
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19. Re:Canada needs to up their game by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2014-10-02 14:32 · Score: 1
  
  I'm pretty sure that a kielbasa with maple syrup must have tasted real bad. You were right to switch to processed syrup there!
  
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Watch out americans.... by mysidia · 2014-10-01 21:57 · Score: 2

Canada's robotic Canadarm2 will install the next two Urthecast cameras on the International Space Station
Google Earth 10.0 coming. Pretty soon, you'll be able to just type the name of whoever you want into Google search, proprietary backend systems will identify their GPS coordinates using the Android secret location tracking feature, then the Earthcam will be pointed and zoom in on their current position, until their head is visible, and put them on a map with real-time position updating
1. Re:Watch out americans.... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-01 23:06 · Score: -1
  
  Sounds expensive for a selfie. I'd rather drop bombs on people. Hell back in the day, we took Dresden off the map and we didn't even have nukes. One day Britain will get it's act together and go back to taking over countries. You might think this is slightly off topic, but just wait. It could happen.
2. Re:Watch out americans.... by peragrin · 2014-10-02 01:46 · Score: 1
  
  It is a good thing that there are only two cameras. Just hack them to follow Kim kardashian. Her ego is big enough it shouldn't be hard to track from space.
  The ret of us can then live in peace if the governor tries to interrupt the feed the it will be well known. (Except if the government try the movies survelience camera loop hack. It work forhollywood why won't it work in real life?
  
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3. Re:Watch out americans.... by smooth+wombat · 2014-10-02 04:08 · Score: 1
  
  Her ego is big enough it shouldn't be hard to track from space.
  
  Her ego? Have you seen how fat her ass is? Her ego looks like a pimple next to the ostrich egg which is her ass.
  
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too helpful for our own good, we Canucks by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-01 22:28 · Score: 0

We're too polite to say noo when our neighbours tell us to install spy cameras in oorbit, eh? But doon't woorry, it's noot spying if the Americans have plausible deniability, eh?
Pfff... by ls671 · 2014-10-01 22:46 · Score: 2

"Canada's robotic Canadarm2 will install the next two Urthecast cameras on the International Space Station, "
Everybody knows space is full of ether so they are obviously "Ethercast cameras".
Come on editor!

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1. Re:Pfff... by twosat · 2014-10-02 03:09 · Score: 2
  
  I'm pretty sure that it will involve the use of Dextre, the Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator (SPDM) on the end of Canadarm2. Dextre, sometimes called the Canada Hand is the most sophisticated space robot ever built. http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/i... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
Lazy Astronauts by Virtucon · 2014-10-01 22:52 · Score: 1

Get your lazy butts out there and put those cameras up! And while you're at it clean up your room, it looks like a pig stye!

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1. Re:Lazy Astronauts by Ravaldy · 2014-10-02 04:45 · Score: 1
  
  Not lazy. They can only be out for a limited amount of time and when they are they have these massive gloves that make it impossible to work with bolts and wires. The robotic arm is farm more precise and keeps the astronauts working longer and out of danger.
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Already done. Re: Watch out americans.... by ls671 · 2014-10-01 23:22 · Score: 1

It has already been done about ten years ago. The site and business are still alive:
https://www.sat-gps-locate.com...

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Time for a cleaning by Overzeetop · 2014-10-01 23:52 · Score: 1

Wait...if we have robots to install new cameras, will that mean we no longer have to send people outside for cleanings?

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Uh.... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-02 00:38 · Score: 0

Am I the only one who read that as "Urethracast" and not "Urthecast" on the first pass?
Aretha Franklin cast cameras ... by CaptainDork · 2014-10-02 00:55 · Score: 1

... I think the US should pay back with some Gordon Lightfoot YouTube® videos from the US arm.

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Canada, eh? by CohibaVancouver · 2014-10-02 01:37 · Score: 1

Not only is the arm installing the cameras Canadian, so are the cameras! The company that makes them is headquartered in Vancouver.
The arm is a tool by Russ1642 · 2014-10-02 01:50 · Score: 1

The other day my screwdriver put together four IKEA cabinets. Thankfully I didn't have to lift a finger.
New cameras - does that mean new filters? by modi123 · 2014-10-02 02:21 · Score: 2

Really.. Really guys, REALLY! - if we are getting a camera upgrade for the earth selfies there better be new filters. I mean, I totes *HATE* having to deal with the same boring filters. Ugh! I..can 't.. even!
Urgh by wonkey_monkey · 2014-10-02 03:11 · Score: 2

Urthecast
Is that actually based on some real language, or is just another deliberate sickly misspelling?
I couldn't help being reminded of the word "urethra" when I saw it...

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1. Re:Urgh by Ravaldy · 2014-10-02 04:45 · Score: 1
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
2. Re:Urgh by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-02 07:43 · Score: 0
  
  It could be a really low budget reality show: Ur The Cast