Tag Archives: satellite servicing

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.

Northrop Grumman's SpaceLogistics subsidiary plans to launch a space vehicle designed to service satellites in orbit and potentially extend their lifespan, C4ISRNET reported Tuesday.

Rick Ambrose, executive vice president for space business at Lockheed Martin and a 2019 Wash100 winner, said the company is conducting research-and-development work on a satellite servicing concept to replace or repair computer systems and other electronics on orbit, Breaking Defense reported Monday.

Dan Jablonsky, president and CEO of Maxar Technologies, told SpaceNews in an interview published Wednesday the company's move to adopt a unified operating model as part of a reorganization effort seeks to achieve cost savings and accelerate service delivery.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has tapped Praxis to oversee mission planning for the Robotic Servicing for Geosynchronous Satellites program following Maxar Technologies' departure from the effort in January, Space News reported Sunday.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has concluded a preliminary design review of a satellite servicing system being developed in collaboration with Maxar Technologies' SSL subsidiary. DARPA said Friday results of the assessment showed that the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites payload could operate for several years and repair at …

Maxar Technologies' SSL subsidiary plans to leverage its work with NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to build up its in-orbit satellite servicing business, SpaceNews reported Monday. SSL works with DARPA to build a vehicle designed to repair, inspect, refuel and install payloads into satellites operating in geostationary orbit through the …