Bartolomeo - Full Robotic Ops

Bartolomeo - Get Ready On March 7, 2020, the Airbus built Bartolomeo experiment platform was launched to the ISS (International Space Station) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket (SpaceX-20 Mission). On Tuesday, March 24, 2020, the NASA Robotics Team at the JSC Mission Control Center in Houston Texas along with the ESA/Airbus Team at the Columbus Mission Control Center in Munich, Germany extracted the Bartolomeo payload from the SpaceX Dragon trunk and moved it to a temporary location on the US Lab. The Bartolomeo Trunnion Clamp mechanism was then tested for a few seconds to ensure the clamps were functional prior to installing Bartolomeo on the trunnions of the forward face of the Columbus module. Bartolomeo - Reach Out On Wednesday, April 1, 2020,The NASA Robotics Team at the JSC Mission Control Center in Houston Texas along with the ESA/Airbus Team at the Columbus Mission Control Center in Munich, Germany extended the Bartolomeo Outrigger Arm and then perform a fit check of Bartolomeo to the ISS Columbus modules along with testing the Trunnion Clamp motors prior to installing Bartolomeo to the Columbus module. Bartolomeo - Hold On On Thursday, April 2, 2020,The Robotics Team at the JSC Mission Control Center in Houston Texas along with the ESA/Airbus Team at the Columbus Mission Control Center in Munich, Germany installed Bartolomeo on the ISS (International Space Station) Columbus module forward facing trunnions and the extended the two antenna booms. Bartolomeo is now securely attached to the Columbus Module. The next step is to perform an EVA (Extravehicular Activity) to release from Bartolomeo the four power cables, two data cable and an antenna cable and route and connect them to the connector ports on the Columbus module.