Facts about ISS Canadian Segment
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Mobile Base System, part of the ISS Canadian Segment, travels along rails on the station's truss to reposition Canadarm2 to different work sites.
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Over 2,000 Canadian-built components comprise the ISS Canadian Segment, supporting critical life support and thermal management systems for the entire orbital station.
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Viewing cupolas installed on the ISS Canadian Segment provide Canadian astronauts with unobstructed observation windows for Earth monitoring and robotic arm operations.
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Astronaut Robert Thirsk conducted two ISS expeditions as part of Canada's contribution, spending 204 days in space across his 2009 and 2012 missions.
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Canadarm2 can support a load of 116,000 kilograms, equivalent to the weight of a space shuttle, making it the strongest robotic arm in space.
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Canada contributed approximately 2.3 billion dollars to the design and development of the ISS Canadian Segment through the Canadian Space Agency.
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In 2001, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield became the first Canadian to conduct a spacewalk, performing maintenance on Canadarm2 during Space Shuttle Atlantis mission STS-100.
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The ISS Canadian Segment includes the Mobile Servicing System, which has conducted over 600 spacewalks and robotic operations since its deployment in 1998.
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Canada's Dextre robotic hand, installed on the ISS in 2008, can manipulate objects as small as 5 millimeters with precision grip technology.
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Canadarm2, the ISS Canadian Segment's robotic arm, has a reach of 17.6 meters and was first used on December 18, 2000.