Check out this artist’s depiction of how
a retired satellite’s still usable antenna might one day be salvaged and turned
into a new space asset as part of DARPA’s Phoenix program.
The goal of Phoenix is to develop and
demonstrate technologies to cooperatively harvest and re-use valuable
components from retired, nonworking satellites in GEO to create new space
systems at greatly reduced cost.
By robotically removing and re-using GEO-based
space apertures and antennas from de-commissioned satellites in the graveyard
or disposal orbit, space “junk” could become space “asset.”
Video provided by DARPATV
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