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[frandroid]

You could just set rails or clotheslines outside the station for an external drone camera to travel along.

[krisoft → frandroid]

Or maybe not whole rails, but just fixtures the drone could grab onto. You could supply the drone with power and control signals through the fixtures, and the drone could kinda travel everywhere by just grabbing onto a nearby fixture, then releasing the previous one. Wouldn't that be great? /s

[seniorsassycat → krisoft]

Canadarm2, the robotic arm on the International Space Station, does this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Servicing_System#Canada...

[TeMPOraL → seniorsassycat]

Let's add more Canadarms, and have them throw and catch the drone around.