Space manipulator captured Japanese truck Kounotori-4 to dock to the ISS - Fontanka

Canadian space manipulator Canadarm, controlled from the ISS by NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg and Christopher Cassidy, has carried out the seizure of Japanese transport ship HTV Kounotori-4 (“White Stork”) for the subsequent docking to the station. Broadcast operation is on the site of NASA.

addition to standard goods, “White Stork”, launched on August 3, in the case of standard docking deliver to the International Space Station a small Japanese robotic Kirobo, whose height is only 34 cm, weight – 2,2 kg.

, incorporated in the robot program allows him to move freely in zero gravity, floating in space station. Kirobo knows how to speak Japanese, so he will be able to send messages from the Earth, working at the station addressed Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, and lead discussions with him, according to RIA Novosti.