April 2018
Servicing the space economy
... cost. NASA is preparing to take the next logical step after in-flight refuelling between two aircraft - the robotic refuelling of orbiting satellites to extend on-orbit lifetimes. A service spacecraft for station keeping and manoeuvring is the first...
09 January 2019
New self-driving rovers being tested for Mars
...very difficult planet to land safely on, so it’s essential to maximise the discoveries from each successful touchdown. New autonomous robot technology like this will help to further unlock Mars’ mysteries and I’m delighted that the UK is a key player...
26 February 2021
Lunar levitation track system among new ideas funded by NASA
... a lunar levitation track system, swimming micro-robots for exploring ocean worlds, a method for ...infrastructure idea for autonomously transporting cargo on the Moon using magnetic robots that would levitate over a flexible track. The tracks would...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
... human space activities; India is mounting an ambitious robotic mission to Mars; and several other countries are ...its human space activities, India is mounting an ambitious robotic mission to Mars and several other countries are eagerly climbing...
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...
