TL;DR: It's difficult and expensive to repair satellites in space. So NASA is building semi-autonomous robots to service them in orbit. They also want to build stuff in orbit from scratch. When ...

UK-based space technology company Effective Space has announced plans to launch two drones into space with the aim of assisting two satellites that have exhausted their fuel reserves. The plan amounts ...

The United States military's high-technology branch is hoping to test out on-orbit satellite servicing in orbit in the next five years. Satellites that sit in geostationary orbit, which is about ...

Current satellite operational paradigms result in decommissioning spacecraft when they malfunction or run out of fuel, despite potentially functional components, leading to significant financial and ...

SSL has won a $20 million contract from DARPA to build two robotic arms that could help repair or inspect damaged satellites. Credit: SSL. SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Defense Research Projects Agency ...

This article originally appeared in the June 4, 2018 issue of SpaceNews magazine. Space Systems Loral’s booth at the Space Tech Expo in Pasadena, California, was flanked by robotic arms: a sturdy one ...

After 20 years of trying, NASA still has not produced a method for in-orbit repair of damage to the reinforced carbon composite (RCC) wing leading-edge box on the space shuttle. The obvious solution ...

NASA has selected two thermal protection system (TPS) repair techniques to be demonstrated in orbit during a spacewalk on the STS-114/Discovery Space Shuttle return-to-flight (RTF) mission scheduled ...

HOUSTON — NASA will study whether it can give astronauts the ability to inspect and repair heat-resistant tiles while the space shuttle is in orbit, officials said Monday, one of the first moves the ...