The company was issued a patent for using a center-of-mass control technique.
Credit: Astroscale
Astroscale says it has developed a propulsionless system for docking with tumbling satellites. Astroscale Holdings, the Japanese parent company, was issued a patent for using a center-of-mass control technique that will allow servicer spacecraft to approach and synchronize with tumbling satellites...
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