China News Service, Beijing, January 6 (Ma Shuaisha) According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office: At 6:59 on January 6, 2022, Beijing time, after about 47 minutes of cross-system close coordination, the space station's robotic arm turned The test of a space cargo spacecraft was a complete success. This is the first time that my country has used a space station manipulator to operate a large orbiting vehicle for a transposition test.
In the early morning of January 6, the robotic arm successfully captured the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft.
At 6:12, the rotation test started. After the Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft was unlocked and separated from the Tianhe core cabin, it was dragged by the robotic arm to perform a plane transposition with the core cabin node cabin sphere center as the center; then, the reverse operation was performed. , Until the cargo spacecraft and the core compartment are docked again and locked.
This test initially tested the feasibility and effectiveness of using the robotic arm to operate the space station section transposition, verified the space station section transposition technology and the robotic arm large-load control technology, and accumulated experience for subsequent space station orbit assembly and construction.
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