spaceflight, #NASA's #OSAM-1 (On-#orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing) #satellite servicing and refueling ⛽ scheduled after 📆 2025 https://nexis.gsfc.nasa.gov/OSAM-1.html
#SmithsonianMagazine 📆 March 2, 2022 in 📆 2020, the aerospace company #NorthropGrumman successfully launched two “mission extension vehicles,” equipped with their own engines and fuel, that attached themselves to two commercial satellites 🛰️ and boosted them into new #orbits. #Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites by #DARPA is scheduled for 📆 2024 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/robots-may-soon-fix-fuel-satellites-in-space-180979659
#AeroSpace #robot companies in #OpenStreetMap : https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/aerospace%3Aproduct=robot