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...
September 2025
AI cybersecurity - challenges in space
...the responsible and secure use of AI in space. Amplifying factors When AI directly controls spacecraft manoeuvring, robotic manipulators or other kinetic functions, a successful cyberattack could lead to unauthorised control or hijacking The inherent...
November 2025
Extra-terrestrial Skyring: managing space debris with an artificial planetary ring
... should be reduced to less than 1 m/s and this can be achieved by damping the motion of each object using shepherding robotic drones. This is because the collision timescale is inversely proportional to the relative velocity and slower objects will...
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...
