Dextre Deployable Vision System (DDVS) Announcement

2016-01-07 - On January 7, 2016, the Honourable Navdeep Bains (middle), Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, and Minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), announced that a new vision system will be designed by Neptec Design Group and used on Dextre. The vision system will be equipped with instruments that will support the inspection and maintenance of the International Space Station. Sylvain Laporte (left), President of the CSA, and Jeremy Hansen (right), CSA astronaut, also attended this important announcement. In front of them is a scale model of Dextre. (Credit: Canadian Space Agency)