Intelsat General received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research...
Intelsat General received a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as part of DARPA’s project to study how satellites can be serviced in orbit. DARPA’s Phoenix program is designed to develop and demonstrate technologies “to cooperatively harvest and…
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re-use valuable components from retired, non-working satellites in geosynchronous orbit,” Intelsat said. The company said it plans to study the implications of using commercial satellites “to carry new technology hardware segments to assist in repurposing components … into space as hosted payloads.” The company will investigate safety, legal, regulatory and insurance issues, it said.