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Sarah Schellpfeffer, chief technology officer of Northrop Grumman’s space sector, said the company is advancing in-space sustainability through SpaceLogistics’ Mission Extension Vehicle, which is designed to extend the life of geosynchronous satellites through in-orbit satellite servicing, and is seeing an interest from defense and civil agencies in spacecraft servicing. “It’s really using this as an […] More
Northrop Grumman has closed a licensing agreement with NASA to use three agency-developed technologies for future missions of servicing satellites in orbit. NASA said Wednesday the transfer of its gripper tool, client berthing system and fluid transfer coupler to Northrop is part of an effort to advance the satellite servicing concept. Both developed for the […] More
Northrop Grumman’s Space Logistics subsidiary plans to launch a robotic satellite servicing vehicle in 2024, SpaceNews reported Thursday. The Mission Robotic Vehicle is equipped with a robotic arm developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and is designed to install small propulsion equipment to extend the lives of satellites in the geostationary orbit by […] More
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland has selected Altius Space Machines, Honeybee Robotics and Orbit Fab to provide robotic grapple fixtures for a testing initiative slated to begin in the spring and summer of 2021. Engineers at NASA's Exploration and In-Space Services projects division will evaluate the companies' grapple fixtures using robotics facilities at Goddard under space act agreements.
Maxar Technologies' on-orbit satellite servicing robotic technology has concluded critical design review activities and is slated for delivery to NASA within the first six months of 2022.
Eric Brown, senior director of military space mission strategy at Lockheed Martin, said the company is updating its satellite bus for the U.S. Air Force's GPS III follow-on satellite platform to facilitate hardware updates in orbit, SpaceNews reported Friday.
Northrop Grumman is set to launch its second Mission Extension Vehicle on Saturday as part of an effort to prolong the operational life of Intelsat's 10-02 communications satellite, SpaceNews reported Thursday.
Northrop Grumman is planning to launch its second and latest satellite-servicing vehicle to geostationary orbit no earlier than July 31, NASA Spaceflight reported Friday.
A robotic spacecraft built by Northrop Grumman“™s SpaceLogistics business is slated to reposition Intelsat“™s communications satellite back to its geosynchronous orbit by the end of the month, Breaking Defense reported Friday.
Northrop Grumman's SpaceLogistics subsidiary has docked its satellite-servicing spacecraft onto Intelsat's telecommunications satellite as part of an effort to extend the latter's lifespan by five years.
Northrop Grumman's satellite servicing spacecraft and a Eutelsat communications satellite developed by the company in partnership with Airbus have been launched to geostationary transfer orbit through a Russian Proton-M rocket, NASA Spaceflight reported Tuesday.
Some industry executives say they see government agencies as potential customers of commercial satellite servicing platforms, SpaceNews reported Monday.
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