{"id":104133,"date":"2020-03-22T18:10:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T01:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/darpa-is-building-a-robotic-space-mechanic-to-fix-satellites-in-orbit"},"modified":"2020-03-22T18:10:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T01:10:26","slug":"darpa-is-building-a-robotic-space-mechanic-to-fix-satellites-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/darpa-is-building-a-robotic-space-mechanic-to-fix-satellites-in-orbit","title":{"rendered":"DARPA is Building a Robotic Space Mechanic to Fix Satellites in Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-is-building-a-robotic-space-mechanic-to-fix-satellites-in-orbit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that\u2019s responsible for developing emerging technologies for the U.S. military, is building a new high-tech spacecraft \u2014 and it\u2019s armed. In an age of Space Force and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/space-force-cold-war-space-chris-bogdan\/\">burgeoning threats like hunter-killer satellites<\/a>, this might not sound too surprising. But you\u2019re misunderstanding. DARPA\u2019s new spacecraft, currently \u201cin the thick of it\u201d when it comes to development, is <em> armed<\/em>. As in, it has arms. Like the ones you use for grabbing things.<\/p>\n<p>Armed robots aren\u2019t new. Mechanical robot arms are increasingly widespread here on Earth. Robot arms have been used to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/robot-assisted-spinal-sugery\/\">carry out complex surgery<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/flippy-burger-robot-changing-fast-food\/\">flip burgers<\/a>. Attached to undersea exploration vehicles, they\u2019ve been used to probe submerged wrecks. They\u2019ve been used to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/kinova-robotics-wheelchair-robot-arm\/\">open doors<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2018\/04\/what-happens-when-your-bomb-defusing-robot-becomes-a-weapon\/558758\/\">defuse bombs<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/robot-laser-snake\/\">decommission nuclear power plants<\/a>. They\u2019re pretty darn versatile. But space is another matter entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that\u2019s responsible for developing emerging technologies for the U.S. military, is building a new high-tech spacecraft \u2014 and it\u2019s armed. In an age of Space Force and burgeoning threats like hunter-killer satellites, this might not sound too surprising. But you\u2019re misunderstanding. DARPA\u2019s new spacecraft, currently \u201cin the thick [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,9,6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104133","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}