DARPA Wants to Recycle Space Junk Into New Satellites

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DARPA Wants to Recycle Space Junk Into New Satellites
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1297814 Germany 10/20/2011 01:31 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	DARPA Wants to Recycle Space Junk Into New Satellites The United States Department of Defense is looking for ways to repurpose space junk thousands of miles above Earth back into valuable satellite parts, or even completely new spacecraft. The military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has started a program called Phoenix, which seeks to recycle still-functioning pieces of defunct satellites and incorporate them into new space systems on the cheap. The Phoenix program aims to use a robot mechanic-like vehicle to snag still-working antennas from the many retired and dead satellites in geosynchronous orbit — about 22,000 miles (35,406 kilometers) above Earth — and attach them to smaller "satlets," or nanosatellites, launched from Earth.... ReadMore: [link to www.space.com] wow darpa^^

Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1297814 Germany 10/20/2011 03:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: DARPA Wants to Recycle Space Junk Into New Satellites well, look up ROSAT is coming :D
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1297814 Germany 10/21/2011 08:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: DARPA Wants to Recycle Space Junk Into New Satellites Grave-robbing robot could revive dead satellites Satellites that reach the end of their useful lives are often boosted into a "graveyard" orbit in order to make way for replacements. Now, DARPA has proposed a grave-robbing robot that could stitch together parts from these dead satellites to create new ones, avoiding the huge expense of launching components into space.... ReadMore: [link to www.newscientist.com]
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1297814 Germany 10/21/2011 05:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation	Re: DARPA Wants to Recycle Space Junk Into New Satellites The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has started a program called Phoenix, which aims to recycle pieces of retired satellites, using them to create new on-orbit assets [link to www.space.com]
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