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Elite S2 at work on the International Space Station

Rome, Italy - In October two experimental sessions for the Italian device developed by ASI, which has been on board the ISS since 2008

Twelve years ago, in 2000, an idea of some Italian research centres started to take shape: the realization of a system able to monitor in three dimensions the movements made by an astronaut in microgravity. Now Elite S2 (the control interface appears in the picture), of which ASI (the Italian Space Agency) has coordinated and funded the development, is the only 3-D motion-capture system present on...

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Rome, Italy, 09/14/2012 19:13
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