The company’s refueling nozzle was tested at the Air Force Research Laboratory

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The Colorado-based startup recently demonstrated autonomous in-space welding

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Starfish’s Otter space servicing vehicle would provide “augmented maneuvering” capabilities to military satellites

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Col. Rich Kniseley: ‘We need to make sure there is a business case for commercial companies to survive if the government is not there’

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It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to discern the obvious: the new generation of satellites are not meant to be refueled.

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WASHINGTON — The Space Force is eyeing innovative in-orbit refueling technology, but a key question lingers: is it worth the cost, especially when the military is considering a shift towards […]

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Lt. Gen. Bratton: “We talk a lot about space refueling, but we don't really know what the case is for its military utility”

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The satellite industry would seem to have nearly a billion reasons to embrace satellite servicing. But the insurers who are on the hook for massive claims are taking a far more cautious approach.

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Astroscale is moving into the next phase of an inspection mission as its spacecraft approaches a derelict upper stage in low Earth orbit.

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A robotic servicing vehicle will rendezvous with a military satellite and attach an imaging payload

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The People’s Liberation Army is working comprehensively on the technology and training tools for on-orbit satellite refueling for both peacetime and wartime scenarios.

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With a $1.3 billion defense backlog, the company is eyeing opportunities for in-orbit services and transportation vehicles

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NASA has canceled a multibillion-dollar project to demonstrate satellite servicing technologies that had suffered extensive delays and cost overruns.

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Diane Howard: "The industry has to have a “clear demand signal from government users"

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SpaceWERX is now weighing next steps for the program, trying to gauge the maturity of technologies, their utility and possible commercialization paths.

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A satellite refueling nozzle developed by Northrop Grumman is the first to be selected as a preferred standard for U.S. military satellites.

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Astroscale is developing an in-space refueling vehicle that will shuttle back and forth between a fuel depot in geostationary Earth orbit and a client satellite.

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D-Orbit, an Italian company that provides space transportation services, has raised 100 million euros ($110 million) in a Series C round to expand into satellite servicing and other applications.

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In-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM) capabilities will eventually be crucial enablers of securing and sustaining the future space economy. However, they have not fully matured or become mainstream in the two decades since Orbital Express.

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Scientific Systems, a defense contractor based in Woburn, Massachusetts, won a $1.5 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to develop software for in-space object detection and identification.

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Despite satellite malfunctions that are expected to lead to major insurance claims, the space insurance field is taking a cautious approach to servicing technologies that might be able to repair such spacecraft.

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The Space Force is investing in early-stage technologies and laying out a strategy to buy commercial services to refuel and service satellites in geostationary orbit by the early 2030s.

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Two companies have disclosed details about how they could raise the orbit of the Hubble Space Telescope as NASA evaluates that and other concepts offered to the agency.

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NASA announced April 19 the creation of a new organization devoted to advancing technologies for in-space servicing, assembly and manufacturing (ISAM).

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