The space station robotic arm-transposing cargo spacecraft test was a complete success

According to CCTV news, according to the China Manned Space Engineering Office: At 6:59 Beijing time on January 6, 2022, after about 47 minutes of cross-system close coordination, the space station robotic arm transposition cargo spacecraft test was a complete success, which is the first time that China uses the space station robotic arm to operate a large orbiting vehicle for transposition test.

In the early morning of January 6, the robotic arm successfully captured the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft. At 6:12, the transposition test began, and after the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft was unlocked and separated from the Tianhe core module, the core capsule node capsule was centered on the center of the ball under the drag of the mechanical arm for plane transposition; then, the reverse operation was reversed until the cargo spacecraft and the core capsule were re-docked and locked.

In this test, the feasibility and effectiveness of using the robotic arm to operate the transposition of the space station module were preliminarily tested, and the transposition technology of the space station module and the large-load control technology of the robotic arm were verified, which accumulated experience for the subsequent assembly and construction of the space station.

Edited by Yanting Chen