by Gordon Roesler | Mar 7, 2019 | News
Both the US and China are putting plans for going to the Moon in high gear. Eventually, this is so that the Moon becomes a source of economic activity. Lunar resources, like water and metals, can support sustainable human presence on the Moon. They can also lower the...
by Gordon Roesler | Feb 13, 2019 | News
A couple of weeks ago, we posted that DARPA’s partner for the RSGS program had pulled out, citing financial challenges: https://spacenews.com/ssl-cancels-darpa-satellite-servicer-agreement/ DARPA has reacted quickly by reaching out to the US aerospace industry for a...
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® | 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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