Two Private Satellites Dock In Space In Historic First For Orbital Servicing (space.com) 5
schwit1 quotes Space.com: In a historic first for satellite operations, a commercial spacecraft "helper" has docked with a working communications satellite to provide life-extension services.
The companies involved in the meetup — Northrop Grumman and Intelsat — hailed the operation, which took place Tuesday (Feb. 25), as the beginning of a new era that will see robotic spacecraft giving new life to older satellites that are low on fuel or require repairs.
The companies involved in the meetup — Northrop Grumman and Intelsat — hailed the operation, which took place Tuesday (Feb. 25), as the beginning of a new era that will see robotic spacecraft giving new life to older satellites that are low on fuel or require repairs.
Scott Manley has explained it well... (Score:4, Informative)
https://youtu.be/XBOQSRZSFgs [youtu.be]
This is waht NASA _should_ have been doing (Score:1)
Rather than some of the grandiose pork barrel funding of the Space Shuttle itself, with the predictable failures of complex systems scattered across multiple states for manufacture of so many different systems, this is the kind of mission NASA should have been working on. Grandiose challenges like Lunar colonies, or permanent space residents, or Mars missions rely on much more modest capabilities, such as the ability to update, refuel, or repair LEO and even geo-synchronous satellites. And the elementary ta
baby satellites (Score:1)
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