29 September 2021
Orbit Fab to launch first geostationary fuel tanker
... in two weeks instead of 6 months, with minimal radiation exposure. As the Tanker-002 name might suggest, this is Orbit Fab’s second tanker; the first – Tanker-001 Tenzing – is a 35 kilogram small satellite tanker designed to store green propellant...
September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
... also taken place, notably with the 2019 demonstration of fluid transfer on the International Space Station by US start-up Orbit Fab. The company also launched its first operational fuel depot, Tanker-001 Tenzing, into LEO in June...
