Darpa Mulls “Satlets” Built From Salvaged Parts From Retired Satellites

Credit: NASA
One person's junk is another person's treasure—or at least that appears to be the premise behind a new effort, appropriately called Phoenix, sponsored by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa). The basic idea is to harvest parts from decommissioned satellites to build new...

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