{"id":103283,"date":"2020-03-04T23:03:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T07:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/in-space-robotic-servicing-program-moves-forward-with-new-commercial-partner"},"modified":"2020-03-04T23:03:50","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T07:03:50","slug":"in-space-robotic-servicing-program-moves-forward-with-new-commercial-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/in-space-robotic-servicing-program-moves-forward-with-new-commercial-partner","title":{"rendered":"In-space Robotic Servicing Program Moves Forward with New Commercial Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-space-robotic-servicing-program-moves-forward-with-new-commercial-partner2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DARPA has established a new partnership with U.S. industry to jointly develop and deploy advanced robotic capabilities in space. The agency has signed an Other Transactions for Prototypes agreement with Space Logistics, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation, as its commercial partner for the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program.<\/p>\n<p>The RSGS program\u2019s objective is to create a dexterous robotic operational capability in geosynchronous orbit that can extend satellite life spans, enhance resilience, and improve reliability for current U.S. space infrastructure. The first step is the RSGS program\u2019s development of a dexterous robotic servicer, which a commercial enterprise will then operate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDARPA remains committed to a commercial partnership for the execution of the RSGS mission,\u201d said Dr. Michael Leahy, director of DARPA\u2019s Tactical Technology Office. \u201cBuilding upon the successes of the DARPA Orbital Express mission and the recent successful docking of Space Logistics\u2019 Mission Extension Vehicle-1, the agency seeks to bring dexterous on-orbit servicing to spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit (GEO), and to establish that inspection, repair, life extension, and improvement of our valuable GEO assets can be made possible and even routine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARPA has established a new partnership with U.S. industry to jointly develop and deploy advanced robotic capabilities in space. The agency has signed an Other Transactions for Prototypes agreement with Space Logistics, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation, as its commercial partner for the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program. The RSGS [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}