Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!cbs
From: cbs@geac.UUCP (Chris Syed)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Canadarm
Summary: can an arm lift its own weight?
Keywords: Canadarm, weight
Message-ID: <6248@geac.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 21:34:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.6248
References: <22000010@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <757@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> <4143@watvlsi.waterloo.edu>
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In article <4143@watvlsi.waterloo.edu>, smcmahon@watvlsi.waterloo.edu (Scott H. McMahon) writes:
> 
> [...] 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. 
 
  You may be thinking of a very nice little film called _An Arm In Space_. 
  As I recall, the joint supporters had little wheels, and rolled around as
  they flexed the arm. 

  The arm can't support its own weight on Earth... but it's another story
  in orbit. 8-)

  {uunet!mnetor,unicus,yunexus,}!geac!cbs (Chris Syed)