Following the successful spacewalk on Friday the International Space Station operations team used the station’s Canadarm2 to move the Pressurized Mating Adapter (PMA) 3 from its home on Node 3 where it has been since arrival in October 2000 to the Zenith of Node 2.
With this move complete the next International Docking Adapter (IDA) can be delivered by SpaceX to complete the migration of the two PMA’s to support the Commercial Crew dockings including those by Boeing’s CST-100 and SpaceX Crewed Dragon scheduled to start either later this year or in 2018.
Mission Control confirms a good PMA-3 relocation, now in its new home on Node 2 Zenith. Final bolt loading still to come.
— ISS Updates (@ISS101) March 26, 2017
PMA-3 moving into the pre-berthing position. pic.twitter.com/iZWUv7R1yZ
— ISS Updates (@ISS101) March 26, 2017
PMA-3 now clear of the Node 3 CBM. The process of moving the module should take around ~3 hours from unbolting to ready-to-latch, pic.twitter.com/3BpBfhh9fP
— ISS Updates (@ISS101) March 26, 2017
PMA-3 has been removed from the Node 3 Port CBM. Canadarm2 has a firm grasp of the 1,200kg module, maneuvering it over to Node 2. pic.twitter.com/mFcbWnjyOz
— ISS Updates (@ISS101) March 26, 2017
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