"From haptic robots to plastic recycle's, here goes from exciting technology to space."

The Cygnus spacecraft is about to stop a trip on the Northrop Grumman Antrop rocket to deliver some 2,000 kg of experiments and hardware to test at the International Space Station.

From haptic robots to plastic recycle's, here goes from exciting technology to space.

These payloads are designed to advance human space exploration, especially as we prepare for NASA's Artemis mission and, one day, send a crew to Mars. Scientists want to create a vibrant environment among the stars, but some of our biggest challenges are communication delays, stability, and radiation risks. To counter these problems, some of the most exciting investigations include ESA, Made in Space Plastic Recycles and Remote Rover of the Advanced brand, which has never been tested in space before, wearing a radiation safety vest using 'Space Internet' Make. From Lockheed Martin and Steamed. Now, the discovery of new planets, such as the alien surface of Mars with robots, is the safest and most efficient way to investigate areas of interest for human exploration. However, we currently cannot control them fundamentally. The delay time for radio signals from mission control to a planetary mobile is extremely inefficient and this archaic technology can cause massive latency problems that result in missed opportunities. But ESA's Merton project is developing new communications, robot interfaces, and hardware for astronauts to control robots thousands of kilometers away. In particular, an on-board spacecraft orbits any planet the body is examining. The robot must be on the surface and the astronaut controls the robot from the spacecraft. Then, these robots have everything we already have through a "space internet" and are equipped with their own haptic system, which means that astronauts are in an orbiting spacecraft. The rider can feel that sense when the robot feels something, like a rock that lifts something. And this technique greatly helps to perform some maintenance tasks that would not be possible without comments.

From haptic robots to plastic recycle's, here goes from exciting technology to space.

ESA has been testing this technology for the last few years with various iterations of robots. Cygnus will be delivering the key piece of this haptic technology, the Sigma 7 joystick, for their new experiment, ANALOG - 1. This investigation will be a combination of everything the team has learned so far on the Me-tron project and also will be the most advanced version of their haptic technology being controlled in orbit. This is the first experiment that we control a complete robot with a complete sixth degree of freedom haptic device on-board the space station. So Hap-tics-1 and Haptics-2 was just the simple one degree of freedom choice. Now we’ll be going one step further to the 60-degree haptic device that controls the robotic arm in all three translations and all three rotations. And these innovative systems can do more outside of the space mission as well. And also the prospect of it you think of this technology what it could mean for us that we have similar problems in deep-sea robotics and so on. That would be quite handy to use similar technologies to control robots. Or think of nuclear power plants. To send in a robot with remote operation, and safe distance. And this is just one of the many robotic instruments on-board the ISS, but this next device could be key in helping astronauts achieve more sustainable stays in space. Right now, the ISS takes extreme measures to make sure it’s efficient in preserving resources, recycling air and water, reducing waste, and repurposing materials

But even then, trash accumulates and it can weigh up to two metric tons. So the only way astronauts can receive or get rid of these materials is by utilizing a commercial resupply vehicle. 

From haptic robots to plastic recycle's, here goes from exciting technology to space.

To help address the waste, innovative 3D printing devices, like Made in Space’s Additive Manufacturing Facility, was introduced to the station to have astronauts print their own tools and supplies, but there’s one problem: 

The 3D printer still receives its restock of filaments from Earth. And this is where the Plastic Recycles comes in. We launching the Recycles to the International Space Station to add the capability of being able to use the materials on orbit, primarily the waste materials for something beneficial. The machine isn’t too far off from what you’d find here on Earth except it will primarily use a green polyethylene, which is a renewable polymer made from sugarcane by a team at Brakeman's Innovation Technology. The polymer and other plastic like it will be broken down using the Recycled. The Recycles starts by taking plastic bags, bubble wrap, 3D printed polyethylene parts, into a chamber. From that point, the material flows through a grinding system that turns it into a fluffy, ground-up powder that is stored in a hopper. That then injects that material into an extrusion system. The extrusion system melts the material and turns it into a 1.75-millimeter filament. It cooled and then wrapped on a spool, then we can take that spool as a feed-stock cartridge, and put that into our manufacturing device 3D printer. We can now use the material, print with it, reprocess it, turn it back into feed-stock, and create this closed-loop system. This is exactly what astronauts are going to need in missions that travel further into our solar system and away from our home planet. Future space explorations are gonna rely on humans utilizing available resources and having a very sustainable ecosystem.

From haptic robots to plastic recycle's, here goes from exciting technology to space.

And the local manufacturing of that part is:

The construction you need on-demand, insight, where you have available what you have available. This brings a new level of stability and reuses to the International Space Station. But space is full of strange situations such as high levels of radiation, so our aspirations to live on the Moon and Mars are almost impossible ... for now.

After the delivery of the mission, the astronauts will participate in "Comfort and human factors":

Evaluation of the Astrid radiation garment, also known as "charge" or astride waste probe. This garment is made of materials that contain hydrogen that will provide protection against space radiation. Crew members have been selected for this experiment. Because they have the highest sensitivity to this hostile environment due to the risk of radiation-induced cancer in the ovaries and breast tissue. Wearing vests for the ha, performing your daily tasks in the IS arena will provide information about your flexibility and comfort. When everything is over, the researchers will analyze the data back to Earth, where they will carry out future missions. It will be designed to be designed. Therefore, it is safe to say that all these payloads will dramatically change the future of space mission technology. Go. When the Antera rocket is launched from NASA's Wallops flight facility in Virginia, we will be one step closer to improving our ability to find and explore our solar system to its full potential. But it has a future mission that leads to a totally metallic asteroid called Psyche. This will be the first time that humans see such a world and we will cover everything about it in this episode. Are there other releases that you would like us to cover? Let us know in the comments below and be sure to subscribe to the Bright site of life one for all your rocket launch news. Thanks for reading this.