Will Build European Robotic Arm For International Space
Station
It's a done deal. ESA's Director of Human Spaceflight,
Microgravity and Exploration, Daniel Sacotte Thursday signed a
contract for the launch preparations and first operations of the
European Robotic Arm (ERA) on the International Space Station
(ISS). The contract, worth 20 million Euro, was signed with Dutch
Space, the Industrial Prime Contractor leading an industrial
consortium of European companies. The contract signing took place
at the Erasmus User Center at ESA's European Space Research and
Technology Center (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.