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i'm here with robert pickle who's one of

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our robotics controllers who's going to

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be working with the rrm mission uh

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robert thanks so much for being here

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with me today first off tell us a little

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bit about our on this robotic refueling

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mission what are you guys hoping to

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accomplish with this sure so this is a

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goddard develop payload and uh

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their ultimate goal is to do satellite

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servicing missions what this payload is

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is on the iss and they utilize the

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robotic

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components that are already up there the

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ssrms and spdm and they built a bunch of

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task specific tools and adapters

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and have interfaces similar to what is

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found on uh satellites and so we've done

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over the course of the last couple years

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multiple tasks

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what we have coming up are some

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some of the finer tasks

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um

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so for for this payload uh for the tasks

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we have coming up they have a tool

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specific for uh cutting wires

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and actually cutting um mli tape and

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what mli is basically thermal blanketing

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on a bunch of payloads

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and they have basically torque set

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screws

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just like a regular screw you would see

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and then they have essentially a

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screwdriver

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and we're going to unthread some screws

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both caged and uncaged and caged being

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that they can uh put a cage around the

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screws and unthread them in space so

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they can float around and not escape and

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then uncaged if they're they're not

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covered okay and you first just getting

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back real quick you mentioned a wire

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cutter tool screws a lot of this stuff

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you know

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it's my understanding satellites aren't

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really made to be refueled is that

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correct that is correct

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so uh

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in the in the future their goal is you

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know once they get into the servicing

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business they'll build the satellites to

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be more compatible

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what they built these tools is to

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actually do tasks that weren't

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necessarily originally designed to be

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compatible with robots

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all right and what are some of the

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specific tasks you guys are looking to

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accomplish this week

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this week like i was saying for we're

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going to cut and manipulate some mli

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and then also they have some mli that's

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velcro down we're going to grab and

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manipulate

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we're going to unthread some screws

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and they have a

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an array bed of essentially uh uh

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coaxial connectors

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and we're gonna go remove some of these

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coaxial connectors and on satellites

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what this is is basically their little

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test bed that they could uh connect up

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and run some diagnostic tests on the

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satellites

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okay and as a robotics controller here

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in mission control houston you're going

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to be controlling all of that that's

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correct um

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so we'll be controlling ssrms which is

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essentially a 56 foot long manipulator

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and which is holding the spdm pretty big

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arm yeah which is essentially those two

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things combined makes it about 70 feet

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long and we'll be grabbing tools and

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then adapters and doing the fine tasks

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of basically unthreading a screwdriver

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from 70 feet away from where your base

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is wow and all that from you know 250

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miles down here on the ground that's

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correct very exciting stuff um so i mean

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real quick what kind of

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i don't want to try and get too

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technical what kind of interface do you

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guys have with this do you have like a

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camera system on there

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how exactly do you

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control this arm sure so uh on the space

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station there's multiple external

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cameras and then on the mss the ssrm has

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an spdm we have multiple cameras as well

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and then

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when goddard designed these tools what

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they also did was uh put two cameras and

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90 degrees apart on each tool which is

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basically looking directly at the work

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site area of the

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the task we're going to be doing okay so

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we'll be using iss assets and looking at

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three or four views at a time and

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so plenty of eyes on everything you're

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doing at all times okay very cool um

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after you guys get this done what are

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some of the the future tasks you know

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that are coming up soon on the horizon

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for rrm sure

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so we'll i'll back up and tell you what

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we've done in the past so far

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so

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this payload was built and they're

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calling it rrm phase one

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and uh what we've done thus far is we we

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we've went in and

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gathered imagery flying in at different

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rates and different distances

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looking at features that they integrated

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onto this payload that they'll post

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process on the ground and hopefully one

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day have vision algorithms that will

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help them rendezvous with satellites

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in addition to that there is a coolant

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valve panel that apparently has similar

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coolant valve panels found on on current

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existing

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legacy satellites or in earth

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and we went and removed some valves and

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caps and and manipulated plugs

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and then

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there's a fill drain valve a common

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field drain mount found on a lot of

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satellites that are on orbit and we went

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and cut wires removed caps and actually

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they have a tool on this payload that

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flows fuel so we remove the tool similar

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to what you see at a gas station remove

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the tool it has a hose connected to it

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connect it up to the fuel drain valve

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and flow to ethanol so you guys have

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actually refueled this payload yes very

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exciting

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and for the future phase two they have a

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whole new set of objectives set of uh

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adapters and everything

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robert thanks so much for giving us a

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look inside what you guys are doing here