From ETS-VII to HTV:Study of Japanese Rendezvous and Docking/Berthing Technologies
Yuliang WeiSpacecraft Engineering 2011 2 cited
Mission / Earth orbit
NASDA (now JAXA) · 1997–1999 · also Engineering Test Satellite VII, Orihime/Hikoboshi
Japanese satellite that performed the first autonomous rendezvous and docking and robotic-arm experiments between two uncrewed spacecraft.
Official mission page3 papers naming ETS-VII
Yuliang WeiSpacecraft Engineering 2011 2 cited
Thai-Chau Nguyen-Huynh, Inna SharfIROS 2012 18 cited
Markus Wilde, Ulrich WalterIEEE Aerospace 2010 7 cited