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"Program Aims to Facilitate Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites"
Servicing vehicle jointly developed with a commercial partner would leverage DARPA’s successes in space robotics and accelerate revolutionary capabilities for working with satellites currently beyond reach
March 25, 2016
https://youtu.be/XpESs6TRL0M
Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) concept video
Published on Mar 25, 2016
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DARPA’s new Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program seeks to develop technologies that would enable cooperative inspection and servicing in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) and demonstrate those technologies on orbit within the next five years. Under the RSGS vision, that DARPA-developed toolkit module, including hardware and software, would attach to a privately developed spacecraft to create a commercially owned and operated robotic servicing vehicle (RSV) that could make house calls in space. If successful, the effort could radically lower the risk and cost of operating in GEO.
https://youtu.be/lPvJM343nTg
Robot mechanic could prevent satellites from becoming space junk
Published on Aug 28, 2017
"Robot Mechanic Could Prevent Satellites From Becoming Space Junk"
DARPA plans to send a robotic service technician to repair broken satellites in geosynchronous orbit
by Gordon Roesler, Paul Jaffe, Glen Henshaw and Alyssa Pagano
July 29, 2017