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  • U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

    How the Navy's orbiting robots will refurbish civilian satellites

    by 
    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    04.15.2016

    Geosynchronous orbits above Earth are among the most valuable real estate in the solar system. This band of space is utilized by everything from civilian communications and GPS satellites to government-operated weather and nuclear monitors to military applications like on-demand warfighter broadband. It's also a veritable minefield of broken-down, ground-up derelict satellites.