| ▲ | ballooney an hour ago | |
Almost all the ‘servicing’ and ‘orbital debris cleanup’ robot-arm sats are funded quite heavily by military end users, because there is really no market for their stated aims and a huge market for the unstated aims - flying up to an adversary’s satellite and messing it up. Open secret in the industry. | ||
| ▲ | cameron_b 31 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
As I understand it, the current on-orbit service functions include... orbit manipulations. Any service functions of existing equipment would depend on charge interface or communications functions that are not exposed or standardized. It will make a good season to practice kinetic adjustments until the fleets start shipping terminals for Astromech droids. | ||