... de Selding, Space News, October 2015.http://spacenews.com/china-launches-high-resolution-commercial-imaging-satellite 3 The challenge of future space systems and services in Europe: Industrial competitiveness without a level-playing field. Gil Denis...
... required. But what happens in self-regulated areas such as with NASA? The Challenger Space Shuttle breaks apart shortly after launch on 26 January 1986. The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entering Earth’s atmosphere on 1 February 2003...
... to Earth and eventual repair and re-launch. Thereafter the MMU was side-lined, thought too risky in the new safety culture after the Challenger disaster of early 1986. Tasks intended for the MMU were re-designed to be done with manipulator...
... in China on space robotic arms, and China may have flown a satellite equipped with a robotic arm. Beyond the challenge of making a robot arm that could survive in space, there are numerous issues of control that these missions...