Abstract
The International Space Station (ISS) has been assembled since 1998 and plans to be operated by 2020. The Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) called "Kibo" has been carried by three Space Shuttle flights and attached to the ISS piece by piece. The JEM Remote Manipulator System (JEMRMS) was launched by Flight Ii with the Pressurized Module (JEM-PM) on June 2008. Since then, the JEMRMS functional checkout has been initiated and evaluated. After the JEM Exposed Facility (JEM-EF) and its payloads were launched by Flight 2.11A on July 2009, Space Station R.M.S (SSRMS) berthed JE.M-FF to JEM-PM and Experiment Logistics Module (Exposed Section) (ELM-ES) to JEM-EF, and JEMRMS berthed three payloads on ELM-ES to JEM-E.F. On September 2009, when .11TV1 (1141,A Transfer Vehicle) arrived to ISS, JEMRMS performed the hand-off operation of Exposed Pallet (HTV-E.P) from/to SSRMS and installed HTV-EP to JEM-EF in addition to transferring two payloads to JEM-EF. The paper summarizes the JEM assembly operation by SSRMS and JEMRMS. JEMRMS has successfully performed to assemble the total of the five standard payloads and the two ITTV-EPs which are substantially larger than a standard payload. The berthing data were carefully evaluated with respect to the simulation data.
