Abstract: With a great number of subsystems and subassemblies in the Tiangong-I target spacecraft, its structural modal test would have special features in terms of the exciting mode, the identification of modal parameters, and the estimation of test results. The key to the multiple-input modal test is the location of the excitation force and the correlation of the input forces. The key to estimating the closely-coupled modal parameters is the algorithm. Based on the principle of modal test, this paper reviews problems in the application of experimental modal analysis(EMA) for the Tiangong-I target spacecraft, especially, the method of estimating closely-coupled modal parameters.