Successful repair of a dangerous malfunction
Successful repair of a dangerous malfunction
The simulation of an emergency was the most critical part of the experiment carried out on 17 August 2018, in which Alexander Gerst, on board the ISS, had to react spontaneously to an unknown malfunction. The German ESA astronaut succeeded in assigning new tasks to the humanoid DLR robot, known as Rollin’ Justin, in order to replace a burnt-out module in a satellite receiving system.
