Company - Maxar (SSL)
Product/Service - SpiderFab, OSAM-1, SAMPLR
- Classification
- In-Space Transportation
- Category
- On-Orbit Servicing
In-Space Assembly
Robotic Arm
- Fields
- In-Space Satellite Servicing
- Status
- Development, Cancelled
- First launch
- 2025
Involvement in NASA’s Restore-L mission to refuel the almost 20-year-old Landsat-7 satellite.
On-orbit satellite assembly - Spider
On-orbit satellite servicing - OSAM-1
- The space agency said in a statement that the OSAM-1 — On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 — project was being discontinued after nearly a decade of work.
- NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland was leading the work on OSAM-1, with Maxar Space Systems as the project’s prime contractor under multiple deals. OSAM-1 has been in development since 2015, with the goal of docking with the U.S.-owned Landsat 7 imagery satellite in orbit, to repair and refuel the aging spacecraft to extend its life.
In-space transportation - Power and propulsion element
Space exploration - SAMPLR
Status Comment / Notes
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News, Research, Projects and Patents
| Title | Type | Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Funds Demonstration of Assembly and Manufacturing in Space | News | 2020-01-31 | > |
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