The aim of this research is to devise an improved method for evaluating the techni-cal and economic feasibility of telerobotic on-orbit satellite servicing scenarios. Past, present, and future telerobotic on-orbit servicing systems and their key capabilities are examined. Previous technical

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Abstract—The PMD instrument is a set of three custom-designed triaxial accelerometer systems designed specifically to detect and characterize the modal dynamics of deployable masts in orbit. The instrument was designed and built as a payload for the NuSTAR spacecraft, but it is now sponsored

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are presented in terms of on-orbit instrument performance with respect to instrument requirements such as signal-to-noise ratio, transmittance accuracy, and spectral resolution. Results are also compared to ground validation tests performed during the thermal-vacuum campaigns. Performance is presented in terms

This paper describes the operation of the Microcosm Autonomous Navigation System (MANS) which was launched as an Air Force Phillips Laboratory Technology for Autonomous Operational Survivability-(TAOS) experimental

Abstract. Over the past six years, over two billion dollars worth of commercial, civil, and military satellites have been written-off as a result of launch and on-orbit failures. Many of these failures would be relatively straightforward to repair on the ground but the equivalent repair in space