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    Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program leverages commercial space technology to inspect and repair aging or broken satellites in...
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    insects Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites program (RSGS): a telerobotic and autonomous robotic satellite-servicing project, conceived in 2017...
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    repairs, more complex servicing would be performed by a large spacecraft called Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS), that is being developed...
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  • Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites program – A DARPA project aiming to launch in 2024 Kleiner, Kurt (24 February 2022). "Orbiting robots could...
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  • On-orbit satellite servicing refers to refueling or repairing space satellites while in orbit. New commercial interest in on-orbit servicing of satellites is...
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  • for non-cryogenic fluids and gases Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites program "NASA robotic servicing demonstrations continue onboard the...
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    Starlink (redirect from Starlink satellites)
    designated ground transceivers, and Starlink comprises 65% of all active satellites. Nearly 12,000 satellites are planned, with a possible later extension to 34...
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    launches of commercial and military satellites to LEO, polar, and geosynchronous orbits. The heaviest payload launched on Falcon is a batch of 24 Starlink...
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    different orbits, including 24 satellites in medium-circle orbits (covering the world), 3 satellites in inclined geosynchronous orbits (covering the Asia-Pacific...
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    California. I believe this to be the last of the failed satellites to reenter; the remaining 11 satellites still being tracked are slowly raising their orbits"...
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    exact number of these that are military satellites partly due to secrecy and partly due to dual purpose missions such as GPS satellites that serve both...
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  • commercial, Geosynchronous satellite platforms: In addition to those above, the following companies have successfully built and launched (smaller) satellite platforms:...
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  • SSL (company) (category Aerospace companies of the United States)
    (DARPA)’s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program, which is designed to inspect, repair, and augment geosynchronous satellites and plans...
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    Communications satellites are used for television, telephone, radio, internet, and military applications. Many communications satellites are in geostationary...
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    will be used. Private robotic landers, part of NASA's CLPS Program have touched down with more to land as part of the Artemis program. AstroForge's Brokkr-2...
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    orbit the Earth. Nearly all satellites, landers and rovers are robotic spacecraft. Not every uncrewed spacecraft is a robotic spacecraft; for example, a...
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    NESDIS has managed operational geosynchronous satellites (GOES) satellites since 1974. New generations of satellites are being developed to succeed the...
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    Power Satellite constellation for power beaming between satellites in low earth orbit. A total of 1600 satellites to transmit 10 kilowatts of electricity...
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    satellites into medium Earth orbit, 3 into inclined geosynchronous orbit, and 3 into geostationary orbit within just three years. The final satellite...
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  • further in cislunar space, beyond geosynchronous orbit, with a specific focus on supporting NASA's Artemis program and other human spaceflight operations...
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    New generations of satellites are developed to succeed the current polar orbiting and geosynchronous satellites, the Joint Polar Satellite System, and GOES-R...
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    tracking, data and communications services to a wide range of customers with satellites in low earth orbit (LEO), geosynchronous orbit (GEO), highly elliptical...
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  • capability out of those satellites or those satellite components". In March 2016, "Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites" (RSGS) became DARPA's...
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    List of V-2 test launches List of Zenit launches List of Russian human spaceflight missions List of satellites in geosynchronous orbit List of Solar...
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    light satellites, middle class satellites weighing 500–600 kg, research satellites, remote-sensing and telecommunications satellites. Besharat satellite is...
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    Infrastructure Servicing ("SIS") vehicle into near geosynchronous orbit, where it would service commercial and government satellites in need of additional...
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  • Mission Extension Vehicle (category Service satellites)
    service additional satellites. ViviSat saw competition for space servicing business with the 2011 announcement of the Space Infrastructure Servicing (SIS)...
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    and the Launch Services Program are partnering with several universities to launch small research satellites. These small satellites are called CubeSats...
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    facilities during servicing missions 2 and 3A. About twice daily, the Hubble Space Telescope radios data to a satellite in the geosynchronous Tracking and...
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  • Earth Observing System (category Earth observation satellites of the United States)
    generation of Polar Orbiting environmental satellites. Crucially, these polar orbiting satellites are non-geosynchronous meaning these two satellites will have...
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