May 2020
Developing a commercial market for small sample return
... the potential demand taken all together, we estimate sample return is a commercially viable business for near-term space logistics service providers. Such samples are not only potentially attractive to agencies such as NASA but to universities and...
January 2019
Preparing for a robotic revolution in Earth orbit
... also help bring new, low-cost launch vehicles into space logistics systems. Most of the new rockets have payload capacities ...Earth, robots can play a key role in the logistics infrastructure for lunar habitation and development. The Moon village ...
September 2021
Developing an in-orbit servicing and manufacturing economy
... communities There are positive signs that the in-orbit servicing market is already taking off. For example, Space Logistics’ MEV-1 was launched in October 2019 and successfully docked with Intelsat 901 in early 2020 to provide so-called...
April 2021
Satellite servicing comes of age
... Unlimited. About the author Joseph Anderson is the Vice President of Operations and Business Development for Space Logistics LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman. He has more than 30 years of satellite engineering, management and...
October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
... subsystems which manage, distribute, and utilise the power. Consequently, missions requiring high power, such as in-space logistics and human interplanetary exploration, cannot be realised at a reasonable cost and technical ease with current methods...
June 2022
In-orbit servicing and the future of the space industry
... management exponentially more complicated. D-Orbit has been operating the first elements of the next-generation space logistics infrastructure for the past couple of years. Its orbital transfer vehicles have streamlined the deployment of small...
