New NRL Robotics Suite to Service Orbiting Satellites

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Naval Center for Space Technology has finished developing an advanced robotics suite that can service orbiting satellites. Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites Integrated Robotic Payload aims to advance efforts to design, build, integrate and test new satellite servicing capabilities, the U.S. Navy said Thursday. Advanced Space Capability According to Bernie Kelm, head of the spacecraft engineering division at NRL NCST, the RSGS program involves the creation of spaceflight hardware and software to improve satellite servicing operations. He added that the new space capability will support inspection,The post New NRL Robotics Suite to Service Orbiting Satellites first appeared on Executive Gov.