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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Russian space agency had previously threatened to withhold access to Europe's robotic arm at the height of geopolitical tensions last year. Reading time 2 minutes At the end of a nearly seven hour ...

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 ...

Two astronauts on Sunday made the first spacewalk outside China's new orbital station to set up cameras and other equipment using a 15-meter-long (50-foot-long) robotic arm.