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Naked and living in a barrel
"The goal of the Phoenix program is to develop and demonstrate technologies to cooperatively harvest and re-use valuable components from retired, nonoperating satellites in [space] and demonstrate the ability to create new space systems at greatly reduced cost," reads the DARPA announcement. "Phoenix seeks to demonstrate around-the-clock, globally persistent communication capability for warfighters more economically, by robotically removing and re-using [orbiting] space apertures and antennas from de-commissioned satellites in the graveyard or disposal orbit."
You read that correctly. Phoenix will bring the body of a mini-satellite into space, remove the salvageable cameras and antennas of dead satellites, and put them onto the mini-satellite, literally creating a frankensat in space. (sorry about the block, but resgistration is easy).
I'm impress how sci-fi is becoming reality.
You read that correctly. Phoenix will bring the body of a mini-satellite into space, remove the salvageable cameras and antennas of dead satellites, and put them onto the mini-satellite, literally creating a frankensat in space. (sorry about the block, but resgistration is easy).
I'm impress how sci-fi is becoming reality.
