Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watvlsi!smcmahon
From: smcmahon@watvlsi.waterloo.edu (Scott H. McMahon)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: SRB floatation question
Summary: Correct me if I'm wrong but..
Keywords: Canadarm, weight
Message-ID: <4143@watvlsi.waterloo.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 88 17:27:11 GMT
References: <22000010@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <757@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk>
Reply-To: smcmahon@watvlsi.waterloo.edu (Scott H. McMahon)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <757@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> sjeyasin@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk writes:
>From article <22000010@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, by zweig@m.cs.uiuc.edu:
>> 
>> Does anyone know offhand:
>> 
[ questions deleted ... ]
>horizontally for towing back. Exactly how the securing is done I don't know.
>Frogmen ? Canadarm (!) or equivalent ?   Can't say more than that without
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>recourse to books.
>
>
>Swaraj Jeyasingh
>British Telecom Research Labs

Well I'm not too sure how they do it either, but I am pretty  sure that
the Canadarm cannot support its own weight. I seem to remember seeing a
video on its development and they had to test it with its joints supported
on air cussion  devices. The "tube" is made of a  thin light material that
cannot handle the  weight of the  joints. When I was at SPAR this summer
for thier open-house,the  arm  they had on display was  as how I saw it
in the video. Rather amaizing device.

-Scott McMahon
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