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Astroscale U.S., one of the market leaders in securing long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits, and Momentus, a U.S. commercial space company that offers orbital transportation and other in-space infrastructure services, are collaborating to offer NASA a sustainable solution for its Hubble Reboost efforts. The two companies recently responded to NASA\u2019s Hubble Reboost RFI in a joint proposal. The mission\u2019s objectives include the safe relocation of Hubble and the removal of nearby threatening debris from the celebrated space telescope\u2019s new orbit.<\/p>\n
The proposed mission concept, a commercial solution to extend the life of this important national asset without risk to humans, includes launching a Momentus Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle (OSV) to low-Earth orbit on a small launch vehicle. Once in orbit, Astroscale\u2019s RPOD technology built into the OSV would be used to safely rendezvous, approach and then complete a robotic capture of the telescope. Once mated, the OSV would perform a series of maneuvers to raise the Hubble by 50 km. Removal of surrounding and threatening space debris in Hubble\u2019s new orbit using the Vigoride and Astroscale\u2019s RPOD capabilities will be prioritized after the completion of the primary reboost mission.<\/p>\n
\u201cLeveraging Momentus\u2019 flight heritage with three orbital service vehicles on-orbit today and Astroscale\u2019s expertise in RPOD (rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking), we found our product suites to be synergistic in support of a major NASA mission,\u201d said John Rood, Momentus Chief Executive Officer. \u201cEven at 33, Hubble is fully capable of continuing its mission; where it is aging is in its orbital stability. I am thrilled that we collaborated to offer NASA a very cost-effective way to continue to operate this billion-dollar scientific investment by leveraging new robotic in-space servicing technology.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Hubble\u2019s need for a reboost should be an important wake-up call as to why the space industry needs dynamic and responsive in-space infrastructure, and in this case, to extend opportunities to explore our universe,\u201d said Ron Lopez, President and Managing Director of Astroscale U.S. \u201cThe proliferation of in-space servicing and assembly allows us to reimagine how our investments are managed in space; it is the foundation on which the new space age is being built. What we\u2019ve proposed to NASA are options\u2014options that were not available during the five previous crewed servicing missions and that leverage the best of in-space servicing to achieve mission objectives and advance U.S. leadership in space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Astroscale U.S., one of the market leaders in securing long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits, and Momentus, a U.S. commercial space company that offers orbital transportation and other in-space infrastructure services, are collaborating to offer NASA a sustainable solution for its Hubble Reboost efforts. The two companies recently responded to NASA\u2019s Hubble Reboost RFI in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[26,20],"class_list":["post-8618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618"}],"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=8618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}