The European robotic arm (ERA) is pictured extending out from the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module during a mobility test several days after Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev ...

The WET model of the European Robotic Arm (ERA) was comprehensively inspected and tested at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre near Moscow last week. ESA astronaut AndrÈ Kuipers donned a Russian ...

Cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev rides the European robotic arm for the first time during a spacewalk on August 9. Screenshot: NASA TV At the end of a nearly seven hour spacewalk outside the International ...

A robotic arm made solely by European manufacturers has passed its qualification review for launch into space on the OneSat range of satellites. The robotic deployment and pointing system enables the ...

REVAMPING: The European Space Agency is revamping the European Robotic Arm for the International Space Station so it can be launched on a Russian Proton rocket instead of the space shuttle. The arm ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. an astronaut in a spacesuit adjusts his visor outside the international space station with the curve of earth in the background A ...

Sergey Prokopyev, commander of Expedition 69, made history by becoming the first cosmonaut to travel on a robotic arm while doing a spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS). This noteworthy ...

NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis will deliver distinctly European technology to the International Space Station when it sets off into space this week. Atlantis, which is scheduled to blast off Friday for ...

On Wednesday, a Russian cosmonaut hitched a ride on a robotic arm installed on the outside of the International Space Station, during a six and a half hour spacewalk. In doing so, our ghost riding ...

A member of the International Space Station team has become the first person to catch a ride on the end of a newly installed robotic arm. That individual is Russian cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, who ...