Japan demonstrates automatic satellite capture and release
Japan's National Space Development Agency (NASDA) has demonstrated for the first time the automatic capture and release of an orbiting satellite by a second spacecraft equipped with a robot arm, a technique that could one day serve in satellite recovery and repair. The demonstration was conducted...
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