Talk:Canadarm

Provision for jettisoning the arm if it could not be restowed

"If the manipulator arm cannot be restowed for any reason, it will be jettisoned so the payload bay doors can be closed. There are four separation points: one at the shoulder and one at each of the three retention latches. Each separation point is individually released." STS - PAYLOAD DEPLOYMENT AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM Pyro devices would guillotine cable bundles and presumably the arms or joints as well. Would be nice to find/use a published doc as ref. - Rod57 (talk) 12:51, 30 September 2021 (UTC)

British vs. American vs. Canadian English

The article use {{Use British English}}, the talk page use {{Canadian English}}, and the subject has national WP:TIES to the US, where American English is de facto national. Should this article use British or American or Canadian English? --Soumya-8974 ^talk _contribs ^subpages 14:14, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

• I have replaced {{Canadian English}} with {{British English}} in this talk page, as British English will be de facto used in the article until the consensus is reached. --Soumya-8974 ^talk _contribs ^subpages 14:24, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
• Pinging the users that have done significant contributions on the article​​​​​​. --Soumya-8974 ^talk _contribs ^subpages 09:15, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

  While I am not one to be rah-rah for American spelling, I do think this article should be written in American English. It's service during the shuttle era was on an American spacecraft, and the current iteration on the ISS was an American installation. Balon Greyjoy (talk) 12:55, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

• The one thing that I think most can agree on, I'd think, is that it shouldn't be in British English. I'd assume that Canadian English would make the most sense. The references are mostly Canadian. It's got a Canadian flag on it. It's got Canada in the name. The arm itself is pictured in all sorts of Canadian iconography like stamps and on the $5 bill. (UTC) File:Canadian $5 note specimen - back.jpg Nfitz (talk) 14:16, 24 June 2020

• On giving it some more thought, I think it should be in Canadian English instead of American English. I can see the merits of both, but it is a purely-Canadian technology that was used by the US. Balon Greyjoy (talk) 08:17, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

The current consensus is against the British English in favour of Canadian English. --Soumya-8974 ^talk _contribs ^subpages 14:24, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

a crad

it a big arm that looks like a crad 24.51.244.217 (talk) 19:11, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Shuttle-dedicated arms

There's one thing the article doesn't clear up - until literally a few minutes ago I assumed that each shuttle had its own, dedicated arm, that stayed in the payload bay and was matched to each shuttle. But no, the arms were swapped as necessary. Canadarm 201, from STS-2, is still around today because it was eventually swapped into Endeavour. It would be nice if the article mentioned this, although I can't find a good, NASA source to that effect. It would also be interesting to know if any of the later missions flew without the arm (famously STS-107 didn't have it). -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 11:29, 30 August 2026 (UTC)