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

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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. 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. 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....

KS-Arm2 robotic arm latches onto KSS

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Year 16, Day 82 The latest and, unfortunately, likely last update has been added to the Kerbal Space Station. A robotic arm! It was sent to the station because the KSA needed a way to move supplies around in space without needing a bunch of Kerbonauts out on spacewalk at the same time just so they can move 100 pounds of Kerbonaut... waste, if you know what I mean. Or other supplies too. The KS-Arm2 has proven itself surprisingly useful already. It's basically a long, mechanical arm with a claw on the end, but somehow it can grab anything from storage containers to entire modules and swing them around like a toddler with a new toy. During its first test, it successfully moved a fuel tank from one docking port to another without anyone floating off into the void, which is already a victory in the KSA’s book. It’s slow, a little jerky, and occasionally likes to spin things the wrong way, but honestly... that’s half the fun. Technically, the arm had to be put together in two separat...