{"id":55719,"date":"2015-07-14T18:19:54","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T10:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=55719"},"modified":"2015-07-14T18:19:54","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T10:19:54","slug":"canada-to-train-astronauts-for-space-station-using-simulation-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/07\/14\/canada-to-train-astronauts-for-space-station-using-simulation-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada to train astronauts for space station using simulation software"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_55722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55722\" style=\"width: 929px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11377125_10152786155596262_7085506686543424289_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55722\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11377125_10152786155596262_7085506686543424289_n.jpg\" alt=\"Canadian Industry Minister James Moore  (Photo from Moore's official Facebook page)\" width=\"929\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11377125_10152786155596262_7085506686543424289_n.jpg 929w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11377125_10152786155596262_7085506686543424289_n-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 929px) 100vw, 929px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Canadian Industry Minister James Moore (Photo from Moore&#8217;s official Facebook page)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2013 Canadian Industry Minister James Moore announced Monday that new simulator systems will be used to train astronauts and flight controllers to operate Canada\u2019s two robotic contributions \u2013 Canadarm2 and Dextre \u2013 to the International Space Station (ISS).<\/p>\n<p>Montreal-based L-3 MAPPS was awarded with a contract of 5 million Canadian dollars (about USD 3.92 million) over five years to provide simulation software to maintain the Canadian Space Agency\u2019s flight simulator training facility located in the French-speaking province of Quebec, said Moore.<\/p>\n<p>The training facility is situated at the CSA&#8217;s Mobile Servicing System (MSS) operations complex \u2013 considered to be Canada&#8217;s version of NASA&#8217;s mission control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas \u2013 from where flight controllers and astronauts learn how to operate Canadarm2 and Dextre from the ground and space, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Canadarm2 is a 17-meter-long robotic that is routinely used to move supplies, equipment and astronauts as well as capturing and docking unpiloted spacecraft that transport everything from science payloads to necessities for the six-person crew on board the ISS.<\/p>\n<p>Dextre is believed to be the most sophisticated space robot ever built. The Canadian-built, double-armed \u201cspace handyman\u201d is meant to keep the ISS \u201cship-shape\u201d by performing such maintenance work and repairs as changing batteries and replacing cameras outside the space station. It can also hitch a ride on the end of the Canadarm2 to move between worksites, according to CSA.<\/p>\n<p>Canada, along with the United States, Russia, Europe and Japan, is a partner in the ISS and its contribution is the MSS robotics suite that assembles the station in space and which consists of the Canadarm2, Dextre and the Mobile Base System (MBS) \u2013 a moveable work platform and storage facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2013 Canadian Industry Minister James Moore announced Monday that new simulator systems will be used to train astronauts and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":55722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5742,5],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-55719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science-2","category-technology","tag-original","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}