Space Systems Loral says it successfully completed the preliminary design review for Nasa’s Restore-L mission to provide satellite servicing in low earth orbit.
With the completion of the preliminary design review, Restore-L is proceeding on schedule to the next phase of development and its launch in 2020.
As announced last year, SSL is working with Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center’s Satellite Servicing Projects Division, to build a spacecraft that will change the nature of how infrastructure in space is managed by, for the first time in history, refueling a satellite in orbit that was not designed for servicing. [Read more…] about Nasa and SSL complete preliminary design review of robot that will fix satellites
