Early results from NASA's assessment of satellite servicing
2010
Following recommendations by the NRC, NASA's FY 2008 Authorization Act and the
FY 2009 and 2010 Appropriations bills directed NASA to assess the use of the human
spaceflight architecture to service existing/future observatory-class scientific spacecraft.
This interest in satellite servicing, with astronauts and/or with robots, reflects the success
that NASA achieved with the Shuttle program and HST on behalf of the astronomical
community as well as the successful construction of ISS. This study, led by NASA
GSFC, will last about a year, leading to a final report to NASA and Congress in autumn
2010. We will report on its status, results from our March satellite servicing workshop,
and recent concepts for serviceable scientific missions.
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