DARPA Program Aims To Facilitate Robotic Servicing Of Satellites [feedly]

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DARPA Program Aims To Facilitate Robotic Servicing Of Satellites
// Aero-News Network

Servicing Vehicle Jointly Developed With A Commercial Partner Hundreds of military, government and commercial satellites reside today in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO) some 22,000 miles above the Earth—a perch ideal for providing communications, meteorology and national security services, but one so remote as to preclude inspection and diagnosis of malfunctioning components, much less upgrades or repairs.
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