February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
...satellite servicing vehicle, will rely on advanced robotics, electric propulsion, vision-based navigation and ... the possibility of collision and damage during docking). Due to the robotic nature of IOS, we can assume that human factors will not...
March 2021
Eyes on the prize
...are arising, including micro-launchers, miniaturisation, robotics, mega-constellations, and growing demand for satellite... the UK wants to develop. Most are related to in-space robotics which is an area that the Space Growth Partnership advocated in ...
May 2021
NASA’s women of inspiration
...Goddard Space Flight Center and then JPL on human and robotic space missions. Since then, she has undertaken many roles... science with outreach work; and Dr Vandana Verma, Chief Engineer Robotic Operations, JPL, who has worked on Mars rovers since 2008...
January 2023
Clearing space junk from orbit
..., which are critical in offering a commercially viable removal service. The CLEAR mission will also demonstrate a UK-developed robotic arm in orbit, validating technologies that will form the backbone of the wider in-space servicing, assembly and...
11 February 2016
$19 Billion NASA Budget Proposed by White House
... includes $217 million for the Asteroid Redirect Mission, the agency’s three-year-old proposal to send a robotic spacecraft to a near Earth asteroid and bring back a boulder from it to cislunar space to be visited by astronauts. That request...
05 May 2017
Will CubeRover revolutionise planetary surface exploration?
... at Astrobotic. With the low cost and mass of a CubeRover, it has the potential to offer a new paradigm for robotic planetary missions as instead of deploying a single, large rover, to amble about the surface, teams of CubeRovers could operate...
