April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
... a variety of other projects in the works, described in the previous ROOM article, which include (among others): complex robotic assembly missions to build the space exploration transports and telescopes of the future ‘Universal Satellite Bus’ (USB...
August 2021
AI in space – a legal perspective
..., manoeuvres and return). Even further into the future, space activities could ultimately be carried out by avatar-robots controlled by humans on Earth or in orbit around the Moon, or perhaps Mars. Such activities would represent a complex human...
September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
... the oil and gas sectors by 35 percent. Specifically, the development of IOS systems will enable close-proximity robotic operations in space, allowing audacious missions such as active debris removal, satellite servicing, large aperture modular space...
17 August 2016
NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission Review Complete
...the boulder to the capture mechanism. Credit: NASA artist’s concept The Asteroid Redirect Mission is expected to send a robotic spacecraft to an asteroid in near-earth space. The spacecraft will retrieve a boulder of a few meters in diameter from the...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
...we have ever undertaken. It will require human and robotic skills, national and international efforts, commercial and government ... today, we are studying the planet’s habitability. Robotic orbiters and landers from many nations will continue to...
February 2016
200 Days in Space: Living in Orbit
... slide the table out. And that object, such as a mini-satellite, is now ready to be picked up by the Japanese robotic arm and deployed in its orbit. Sometimes, if our colleagues bug us, we can actually put them outside! During...
