During that space walk there will be some repositioning of the power so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
Shortly afterwards, I did a third one to repair the robotic arm of the station. This arm plays a very important role in the ongoing expansion of the station as well as in the deployment of solar panels.
We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab.
We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.
We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.
You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.
Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay.
To be one of the world's top space robotic arm operators is a necessary skill for an astronaut, but it doesn't have much carry-over.
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