{"id":60246,"date":"2020-03-04T22:12:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T14:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/northrop-grumman-partners-with-darpa-for-robotic-servicing-mission\/"},"modified":"2020-03-04T22:12:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T14:12:45","slug":"northrop-grumman-partners-with-darpa-for-robotic-servicing-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/northrop-grumman-partners-with-darpa-for-robotic-servicing-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Northrop Grumman Partners with DARPA for Robotic Servicing Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>SpaceLogistics,<\/strong>&nbsp;a wholly owned subsidiary of <strong>Northrop Grumman Corporation<\/strong>&nbsp;has been selected by the <strong>U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency<\/strong> (DARPA) as its commercial partner for the agency\u2019s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program.&nbsp;Northrop Grumman said the mission will feature the first-ever commercial robotic servicing spacecraft. It aims to expand the market for satellite servicing of both commercial and government client satellites with advanced robotics technology. Program objectives include in-orbit repair, augmentation, assembly, detailed inspection, and relocation of client satellites.<\/p>\n<p>DARPA will provide the robotics payload for the SpaceLogistics Mission Robotic Vehicle, which will be developed and integrated by the <strong>U.S. Naval Research Laboratory<\/strong>, and consist of two dexterous robotic manipulator arms, along with several tools and sensors. SpaceLogistics will provide its Mission Robotic Vehicle bus leveraging technologies developed for the industry\u2019s first- ever satellite servicing vehicle, the Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV). MEV-1, designed and built by Northrop Grumman, completed the first docking in geosynchronous orbit with an Intelsat satellite on Feb. 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur selection as DARPA\u2019s commercial partner expands our leadership in space logistics,\u201d said Tom Wilson, SpaceLogistics president. \u201cThe new robotics technology on this mission advances our vision to build a fleet of satellite servicing vehicles that provide customers with a variety of options to select the type of life-extension or in-orbit repairs they need.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceLogistics,&nbsp;a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corporation&nbsp;has been selected by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as its commercial partner for the agency\u2019s Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program.&nbsp;Northrop Grumman said the mission will feature the first-ever commercial robotic servicing spacecraft. It aims to expand the market for satellite servicing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}