{"id":37188,"date":"2018-11-19T18:01:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T12:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=37188"},"modified":"2018-11-20T14:32:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T09:02:25","slug":"new-space-industry-emerges-servicing-satellites-on-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-space-industry-emerges-servicing-satellites-on-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"New space industry emerges: servicing satellites on orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/new-space-industry-emerges-servicing-satellites-on-orbit\/article25531901.ece\">New space industry emerges: servicing satellites on orbit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A new space infrastructure and civil Space at a company called Space Systems Loral (SSL) is planning to service two to three dozen satellites in a distant geostationary orbit, some 36,000 km from the earth.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>SSL unmanned spacecraft will be able to latch onto a satellite to inspect it, refuel it, and possibly even repair it or change components, and put it back in the correct orbit.<\/li>\n<li>It as \u201cequivalent to a <strong>AAA servicing truck <\/strong>in geostationary orbit.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Intelsat<\/strong>, which operates 50 geostationary satellites,signed a contract with Space Logistics (SSL) for its Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV).<\/li>\n<li>When it launches in 2019, the spacecraft will attach itself to a broken down satellite, and reposition it in its correct orbit. The MEV will stay attached and use its own engine to stay in orbit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>De-orbiting defunct satellites: <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Since 2008, France has required satellite operators to take steps to \u201cdeorbit\u201d their spacecrafts by programming them to re-enter the earth\u2019s atmosphere in 25 years so that they burn up, according to the French National Center for Space Studies (CNES).<\/li>\n<li>When it comes to satellites in geostationary orbits, their end-of-life option is to go farther from the earth to a \u201cgraveyard orbit\u201d 200 miles (300 kilometers) further away.<\/li>\n<li>A small Japanese company founded in 2013, <strong>Astroscale,<\/strong> is developing a system to approach and capture space debris and broken satellites.<\/li>\n<li>Airbus\u2019s future <strong>\u201cSpace Tug,\u201d<\/strong> planned for 2023, is being built to grab old satellites and push them down to 125 miles (200 kilometers) above Earth so they burn up.<\/li>\n<li>The number of satellites in space has<strong> already risen 50 percent <\/strong>in five years, according to the Satellite Industry Association, and growth continues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li><strong>Significance:<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>On-orbit servicing could help cut down on the perplexing problem of mounting space debris.<\/li>\n<li>Of the 23,000 space objects counted by the U.S. military, just 1,900 are active satellites.<\/li>\n<li>The rest includes nearly 3,000 inactive satellites, 2,000 pieces of rockets and thousands of fragments produced by <strong>two key events<\/strong>: the deliberate missile explosion of a Chinese satellite in 2007, and the 2009 collision of an Iridium satellite with an ageing Russian one.<\/li>\n<li>Since 2008, France has required satellite operators to take steps to \u201cdeorbit\u201d their spacecrafts by programming them to re-enter the earth\u2019s atmosphere in 25 years so that they burn up, according to the French National Center for Space Studies (CNES).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New space industry emerges: servicing satellites on orbit News: A new space infrastructure and civil Space at a company called Space Systems Loral (SSL) is planning to service two to three dozen satellites in a distant geostationary orbit, some 36,000 km from the earth. Important Facts: SSL unmanned spacecraft will be able to latch onto&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-space-industry-emerges-servicing-satellites-on-orbit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New space industry emerges: servicing satellites on orbit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[217,242,400,891,890],"class_list":["post-37188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","tag-gs-3","tag-science-and-technology","tag-space","tag-space-mission","tag-space-systems-loral","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":1,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703516395},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}