by Robots In Space® | Feb 6, 2019 | Blog
An illustration of Space System Loral’s concept for a satellite servicing system it is developing with DARPA. Credit: SSL Inspecting, repairing, and upgrading satellites in space will make them cheaper, last longer, and able to perform more missions. But the...
by Robots In Space® | Feb 6, 2019 | News
After one company pulled out of a major program for servicing satellites in space, some people are asking whether the whole idea is premature. But one step backwards isn’t the whole story. Here is an article that collects the opinions of several space industry...
by Robots In Space® | Jan 31, 2019 | News
The nation’s premier space robotics program is called Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS). The space industry has been highly interested in RSGS and the new capabilities it brings to space—repairing, inspecting and upgrading satellites, moving them...
by Robots In Space® | Jan 15, 2019 | Blog
Most people don’t spend much time thinking about space. But all of us in developed countries get lots of services from space, that we take for granted: • Weather satellites warn of approaching hurricanes and typhoons. They have saved millions of lives. • High...
by Robots In Space® | Dec 17, 2018 | News
Astronauts repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope during the first servicing mission to that orbital observatory, in 1993. NASA is now studying how telescopes far larger than Hubble might someday be assembled and serviced in space by astronauts or robots....
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