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Steve Duran, systems engineer and software lead on the project, watch the tiny satellite during testing in the AERCam Lab at JSC. Steven Fredrickson (left), Mini AERCam Project Manager, and That base also serves as a refueling station. The docking system is a base outside for the diminutive satellite. It recently passed a series of docking system tests in simulated spaceflight conditions with flying colors. More formally known as the Miniature Autonomous Extravehicular Robotic Camera, it will be operated either by spacecraft crewmembers or from the ground. It is designed to provide views that fixed cameras, cameras on robotic arms or cameras carried by spacewalkers can't. It's less than eight inches in diameter and weighs 10 pounds. Image to left: Nathan Howard, Mini AERCam Mechanical Design lead, monitors a test with the tiny satellite in the AERCam Lab at Johnson Space Center. It is the product of work on such spacecraft that began more than five years ago. But it offers astronauts a new way to get a look at trouble outside a spacecraft.Įngineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston believe the Mini AERCam holds considerable promise for future space exploration.
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