Italian space logistics specialist D-Orbit will provide a series of launches aboard its ION Satellite Carrier for Japanese startup ArkEdge Space, under a contract announced July 8 in Japan. “This is ...

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 ...

Discovery's crew spent much of Aug. 2 preparing for the next day's delicate on-orbit repair job during which Astronaut Steve Robinson will remove two protruding tile gap-fillers from the shuttle's ...

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 ...

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 ...