Space Stations

Testing The Astrobee Robotic Assistant Droid

By Keith Cowing
Press Release
May 15, 2020
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Testing The Astrobee Robotic Assistant Droid
Astrobee Robotic Assistant
NASA

Expedition 59 Flight Engineer David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency prepares the free-flying Astrobee robotic assistant for a mobility test inside the Kibo laboratory module.
Astrobee consists of three self-contained, free flying robots and a docking station inside the International Space Station.

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