KS-Arm2 grabs onto an entire rocket to test its high-weight payload systems

Year 19, Day 168

So, KSA and SpaceK have finally collaborated on something fantastically weird; an odd project of grabbing onto a rocket, using the KS-Arm2 that's on the Kerbal Space Station (KSS).

Now, there are multiple reasons they did this. One of those reasons being, KSA wanted to test the upper limits of what the KS-Arm2 could lug around. So, it grabbed SpaceK's newest "soon-to-be automated" spacecraft, the Kerman KX1 vehicle.

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The vehicle is one day planned by SpaceK to be a direct replacement of the Kerb-Shuttle, so that when inevitably, the Kerb-Shuttle program does die, we still have a way to get to the space station and do other things in space.

As for the arm carrying the craft around, it was able to carry it from one side of the station to the other, wrapping around the truss.

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As a plus, the Kerb-Shuttle Explorer recently visited the station again in mission KS-15 to deliver supplies to the station after the Kerbonauts quote: "ran out of snacks."