China space robotic arm transposes cargo spacecraft for the first time


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News from China Manned Space Engineering Office: January 6, 2022, 6:59 p.m. Beijing time, after about 47 minutes of cross-system close coordination, China’s space station robotic arm transposition cargo spacecraft test achieved a complete success, this is China’s first use of the space station robotic arm to operate a large in-orbit vehicle transposition test. According to Chinese media reports, the mechanical arm successfully captured the Tianzhou II cargo spacecraft in the early hours of January 6. 6:12 a.m. The indexing test began, after the unlocking and separation of the Tianzhou II cargo spacecraft and the core module, the mechanical arm...