by Gordon Roesler | Mar 4, 2020 | News
The online journal Robotics and Automation News has just published their article “Space robotics market to boldly go beyond $3 billion by 2025.” You can view it here: Space robotics market to boldly go beyond $3 billion by 2025 The article is a great...
by Gordon Roesler | Feb 10, 2020 | News
Robots can do a lot of useful things in space. But to make them even more useful, there needs to be a cheap, convenient way of getting things TO the robots: modules, spare parts, tools, propellant. The Defense Innovation Unit, a small agency inside DoD, has just asked...
by Gordon Roesler | Feb 1, 2020 | News
The world is demanding more and more data every year. Communications are a growth area. The growth in Internet bandwidth has been over 20% per year, 26% recently. That’s a tripling of data rate every 5 years. Every type of communications system is going to be...
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 | 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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