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Canadarm2

The Canadarm2 robotic arm extending from a grapple fixture on the International Space Station.

Photo: NASA/Expedition 73 / Public domain (US government work)

Canadarm2 is the large robotic arm of the International Space Station, formally the Space Station Remote Manipulator System. It is the main part of the Mobile Servicing System, Canada’s contribution to the station, which launched in 2001. The arm moves equipment and supplies, supports astronauts working in space, services instruments and payloads attached to the station and helps with outside maintenance. It can travel along rails on the Integrated Truss Structure on a mobile cart. In 2026 the 58-foot arm itself needed repair: Jessica Meir and Christopher Williams spent a spacewalk during Expedition 74 working on it.

Data as of 2 November 2026. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

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  1. Inside Tiangong: Crew Life on China’s Three-Module Space Station

    The Space Race

  2. How Shuttle Missions Built the ISS: Unity, Destiny and Canadarm2

    Jared Owen

  3. Inside the ISS: How the Station Is Built, Powered and Lived In

    SLICE Science

  4. ISS History: Assembly, Crises and the Plan to Deorbit by 2030

    Classic Aerospace History

  5. How the ISS Was Assembled: Modules, Gyros, Canadarm2 and Cooling

    Real Engineering

  6. Menon and Adenot Swap a Failed ISS Space-to-Ground Antenna

    NASA

  7. Spacewalk 98: Menon and Adenot Swap a Failed ISS Antenna

    NASA

  8. Spacewalk 99: Adenot and Meir Replace Harmony Retroreflector

    NASA

  9. Crew-12 Pre-Departure Briefing: Spacewalks, Science and Going Home

    NASA

  10. Crew-13 Prelaunch Briefing: Dragon Valve Repair and a Fast ISS Trip

    NASA

  11. Cygnus XL Departs the ISS: Release, Burn and Re-entry Plan

    NASA

  12. SpaceX CRS-35 Dragon Docks at the ISS Harmony Zenith Port

    NASA

  13. ISS iROSA Spacewalks 100 and 101: Final Solar Array Installs

    NASA

  14. US Spacewalk 100: Installing the Seventh ISS Roll-Out Solar Array

    NASA
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US Spacewalk 100: Installing the Seventh ISS Roll-Out Solar Array

NASA

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  4. Spacewalk 99: Adenot and Meir Replace Harmony Retroreflector

    Launch coverageNASA · 9:05:30

    Mission: Expedition 75

  5. Crew-13 Prelaunch Briefing: Dragon Valve Repair and a Fast ISS Trip

    Press briefingNASA · 56:30

    Mission: Crew-13 (2026)

  6. Menon and Adenot Swap a Failed ISS Space-to-Ground Antenna

    Mission explainerNASA · 8:57:39

    Mission: U.S. Spacewalk 97

  7. Spacewalk 98: Menon and Adenot Swap a Failed ISS Antenna

    Launch coverageNASA · 8:48:15

    Mission: US Spacewalk 98

  9. ISS History: Assembly, Crises and the Plan to Deorbit by 2030

    DocumentaryClassic Aerospace History · 1:13:57

  10. ISS iROSA Spacewalks 100 and 101: Final Solar Array Installs

    Press briefingNASA · 28:10

    Mission: ISS iROSA Spacewalks 100 and 101

  11. SpaceX CRS-35 Dragon Docks at the ISS Harmony Zenith Port

    Launch coverageNASA · 1:42:26

    Mission: SpaceX CRS-35 (2026)

  12. Cygnus XL Departs the ISS: Release, Burn and Re-entry Plan

    Launch coverageNASA · 42:07

    Mission: Northrop Grumman CRS-24 (2026)

  13. US Spacewalk 100: Installing the Seventh ISS Roll-Out Solar Array

    Launch coverageNASA · 9:08:26

    Mission: US Spacewalk 100

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