During the test, a robotic arm fitted with a highly specialised tool transferred satellite oxidiser through the valve of a simulated spacecraft.
The test was operated remotely from Goddard and performed at Kennedy’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility.
The test simulated the refuelling of a spacecraft in orbit, a task tackled by the team since the launch of the Robotic Refuelling Mission demonstration to the International Space Station in 2011.
Comment: The UK is closer to deindustrialisation than reindustrialisation
"..have been years in the making" and are embedded in the actors - thus making it difficult for UK industry to move on and develop and apply...