NASA's Fly Foundational robots demo to bolster in-space infrastructure

NASA and industry partners will fly and operate a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit through the Fly Foundational ...
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NASA had an ambitious $2 billion plan to refuel satellites in orbit using robotic arms. A decade later, it's in shambles.

For nearly a decade, NASA has been building a robotic arm that can refuel old satellites in space. But it killed the project on Friday amid budget issues, delays, and technical flops. In development ...
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NASA Demos Robots to Boost In-Space Infrastructure

NASA and industry partners will fly and operate a commercial robotic arm in low Earth orbit through the Fly Foundational Robots mission set to launch ...
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NASA Aborts $2B Mission To Refuel Space Satellites With A Robotic Arm

NASA made the decision to cease and desist with its $2B OSAM-1 (On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing) project due to continued technical, cost, and schedule challenges. The now defunct ...
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NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission Completes Robotic Design Milestone

Following a key program review, NASA approved the Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) to proceed to the next phase of design and development for the mission’s robotic segment. ARM is a two-part mission ...
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ASI Delivers Robotic Arm for NASA’s Mars Phoenix

A new robotic arm destined to dig deep into Mars’ polar crust has been completed by Alliance Spacesystems, Inc. (ASI), and delivered — one month early — to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for ...
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Orbital traffic jam: International Space Station hosts eight spacecraft simultaneously

For the first time in its history, the International Space Station (ISS) has seen all eight of its docking ports ...

Start your week with this awesome ‘space ballet’ at the ISS

The space station's robotic arm has been warming up for some work, and NASA turned it into a piece of performance art.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox ...
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Watch this ISS astronaut take a ride on a robotic arm 250 miles over London

The Canadarm 2 robotic arm delivering Suni Williams to a worksite during a spacewalk outside the ISS. NASA NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore completed their spacewalk at the ...
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NASA installs giant composite material research robot

Just to get ISAAC to the Hampton, Virginia facility was a challenge financially and physically. A huge crane from a local company barely had clearance to lift the ISAAC robot arm and set it down on ...
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Private Cygnus Cargo Ship Captured By Space Station Robotic Arm

The Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo spacecraft was captured by the International Space Station's robotic arm. Credit: NASA ...
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NASA: Astronauts on spacewalk oiling up sticky robotic arm

On their third and final spacewalk in the latest NASA shuttle mission, two astronauts are trying to fix a broken latch and lubricate the robotic arm on the International Space Station. NASA Astronauts ...