by Gordon Roesler | Jan 11, 2020 | Blog
This website is dedicated to explaining, advocating, and developing robotic systems to do more on orbit. What are the benefits? It really couldn’t be said any better than this new video from NASA. One of the most ambitious in-orbit assembly projects being...
by Gordon Roesler | Dec 11, 2019 | News
Two new space robotics efforts announced recently: The US company Made in Space is teamed with the Luxembourg Space Agency to develop a new, low-cost, general purpose robotic arm for space applications: Made In Space Europe wins win ESA contract to develop inexpensive...
by Gordon Roesler | Nov 20, 2019 | News
Large satellites are “folded up” so they will fit inside their launch vehicle’s fairing (“nose cone”) when they are launched. Things that are folded include the solar panels, which will power the satellite during its life, and antennas,...
by Gordon Roesler | Nov 3, 2019 | Blog
Dr. Casey Handmer, a theoretical physicist by training but a keen thinker in the area of space communications, has written an eloquent essay. In his view, worldwide communications in the near future will boil down to one word: Starlink. Here is the link to the full...
by Gordon Roesler | Oct 22, 2019 | News
A satellite fails once on orbit. What went wrong? Was it an engineering flaw? Was it struck by a micrometeorite? Did an electrostatic discharge cause an electrical component to fail? The telemetry received on the ground prior to such a failure is often insufficient to...
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