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August 14, 2014

NASA's Space Station Fix-It Demo for Satellites Gets Hardware for 2.0 Update
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 13, 2014
Who doesn't love an upgrade? Newer, better and oh so shiny is great, but what's really fantastic is when a change unlocks new possibilities. That's the case with NASA's fix-it investigation on the International Space Station, the Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM). The award-winning endeavor moved one step closer to its 2.0 update with the delivery of new RRM hardware aboard the European Automated Transfer Vehicle-5, which docked with the space station today. The RRM module, affixed to an exter ... read more

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