The general designer of the corporation Vladimir Solovyov suggested that in a year the manipulator will work brilliantly
TASS, October 4. /TASS/. A number of problems are now observed in the operation of the ERA manipulator, which is installed on the multipurpose laboratory module "Science" of the International Space Station. This was announced on Monday by twice Hero of the Soviet Union, General Designer of the Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) ENERGIA, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Solovyov.
"He [the manipulator] is not very easy for us, there are problems with the software," Solovyov said at the conference of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Scientific Space of the XXI century: challenges, solutions, breakthroughs."
The General Designer of RSC Energia suggested that in a year he would work brilliantly.
As Solovyov clarified, since January, cosmonauts during spacewalks will be engaged in putting the manipulator in place and software. "Now, after the initial work, something has turned out, but it didn't work out through two channels," he added.