Dextre makes the cut: Wire cutting task is a resounding success!

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Dextre makes the cut: Wire cutting task is a resounding success!

2012-03-08 - After completing operations with the Multifunction Tool, Canadarm2 repositioned Dextre to cut the first of two wires, each about as thick as four sheets of paper. With surgical precision, and only about a millimetre of clearance, Dextre captured the wire in the Wire-Cutting Tool (1:14-1:32). The Canadian-built robot then cut the thin wire (1:44-2:03) that fastened a mock gas cap to the RRM module (much like the tether that secures the gas cap on a car. (Credits: Canadian Space Agency, NASA)

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