{"id":3571,"date":"2022-01-07T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/china-completes-in-orbit-spacecraft-transposition-test-with-space-stations-robotic-arm\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T12:00:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:00:37","slug":"china-completes-in-orbit-spacecraft-transposition-test-with-space-stations-robotic-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/china-completes-in-orbit-spacecraft-transposition-test-with-space-stations-robotic-arm\/","title":{"rendered":"China completes in-orbit spacecraft transposition test with space station&#8217;s robotic arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p >China successfully conducted a transposition test of the Tianzhou-2 cargo craft using its space station&#8217;s robotic arm Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p >It was the first time that the robotic arm operated a large in-orbit spacecraft for a transfer test, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).<\/p>\n<p >The test started at 6:12 a.m. (Beijing Time) and took 47 minutes.<\/p>\n<p >After being unlocked and separated from the space station core module Tianhe, Tianzhou-2 was moved into a predetermined position by the robotic arm. The arm then reversed the maneuvers to bring the spacecraft back to its original position. Tianzhou-2 re-docked with the core module and completed locking.<\/p>\n<p >The test preliminarily verified the feasibility of using the mechanical arm to conduct a space station module transfer, confirmed the effectiveness of relevant technologies, and laid a foundation for the subsequent in-orbit assembly and construction of the country&#8217;s space station, said the CMSA. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China successfully conducted a transposition test of the Tianzhou-2 cargo craft using its space station&#8217;s robotic arm Thursday morning. It was the first time that the robotic arm operated a large in-orbit spacecraft for a transfer test, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). The test started at 6:12 a.m. (Beijing Time) and took [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}