{"id":29242,"date":"2016-08-22T20:35:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T03:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/darpa-to-establish-satellite-servicing-consortium-to-discuss-on-orbit-repair-standards"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:21:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:21:56","slug":"darpa-to-establish-satellite-servicing-consortium-to-discuss-on-orbit-repair-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/darpa-to-establish-satellite-servicing-consortium-to-discuss-on-orbit-repair-standards","title":{"rendered":"DARPA to establish satellite-servicing consortium to discuss on-orbit repair standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-to-establish-satellite-servicing-consortium-to-discuss-on-orbit-repair-standards.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A first step in establishing repair standards on satellite in space; wonder could we eventually see a version of the EPA or in space.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The U.S. Defense Research Projects Agency plans to establish a consortium to discuss standards and practices for on-orbit satellite servicing as a corollary to Robotic Servicing of Geostationary Satellites (RSGS), an effort to develop robotic spacecraft to inspect, repair and move other satellites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur fear was that we would create a robotic servicing capability through RSGS and when our industry partner went to Lloyds of London for insurance, someone would say, \u2018You have no authority to conduct that mission,\u2019\u201d said Brad Tousley, director of DARPA\u2019s Tactical Technology Office.<\/p>\n<p>Through the construction and operation of the International Space Station, the international community has established laws and regulations concerning government spacecraft conducting rendezvous and proximity operations with other government spacecraft as well as government spacecraft conducting rendezvous and proximity operations with commercial spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/spacenews.com\/darpa-to-establish-satellite-servicing-consortium-to-discuss-on-orbit-repair-standards\/\">http:\/\/spacenews.com\/darpa-to-establish-satellite-servicing-...standards\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A first step in establishing repair standards on satellite in space; wonder could we eventually see a version of the EPA or in space. SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 The U.S. Defense Research Projects Agency plans to establish a consortium to discuss standards and practices for on-orbit satellite servicing as a corollary to Robotic Servicing of Geostationary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29242","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66478,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29242\/revisions\/66478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}