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NASA Servicing Study

NASA Servicing Study

NASA - Servicing Study

Servicing Study

NASA has undertaken a study to assess the feasibility, practicality, and cost of servicing satellites using elements of currently planned and future NASA human spaceflight systems and/or robotic technologies. NASA will fully utilize the unique core expertise and competencies for in-space servicing (human and robotic) developed by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), other NASA Centers, the private sector, other government agencies, and academic partners to meet the objectives of the study. This site is being developed for the purpose of keeping the broad community informed of study-related plans and events and to provide access to Project approved documents. It will also serve as a forum for the community to ask questions to be addressed by the Project and to provide feedback.

WORKSHOP

ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

The Workshop is scheduled for March 24th-26th, 2010.

Thanks to the high quality and volume of RFI responses, additional time was needed to review the responses and incorporate the content into the notional mission suite and the agenda for the workshop. This means that the Workshop will not be held in February as was tentatively published.

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Workshop Summary

The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is hosting an open international workshop to bring potential users and providers of on-orbit servicing capabilities together with the NASA GSFC Satellite Servicing Study Team.

The Satellite Servicing Study Team will present the notional mission definition process and the first draft of the notional mission suite for satellite servicing. Participants and RFI responders will have an opportunity to present ideas, technologies and capabilities relevant to satellite servicing, as well as forecast existing and planned spacecraft/observatories that would benefit from on-orbit serviceability. Addresses by keynote speakers as well as break-out sessions will facilitate the sharing of perspectives and solutions across various sectors.

Workshop topics being considered for the sessions are:

  • Scientific and non-scientific missions that would benefit from servicing
  • Humans in satellite servicing
  • In-space robotic technology
  • Servicing-enabling technologies, including Autonomous Rendezvous and Capture
The Satellite Servicing Study Team will finalize the notional missions based on the RFI responses and the presentations and discussions at this workshop.



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