{"id":6570,"date":"2015-11-04T08:29:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T08:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=6570"},"modified":"2015-11-04T08:29:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T08:29:57","slug":"robotic-eyes-to-assist-satellite-repairs-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/robotic-eyes-to-assist-satellite-repairs-in-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotic Eyes to Assist Satellite Repairs in Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6571\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6571\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6571 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"vipir_camera_r\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r.jpg 1041w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: NASA\/Chris Gunn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">NASA is developing and demonstrating technologies\u00a0to service and repair satellites in distant orbits. Robotic spacecraft \u2014 likely operated with joysticks by technicians on the ground \u2014 would carry out the hands-on maneuvers, not human beings using robotic and other specialized tools, as was the case for spacecraft like the low-Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[pullquote]VIPIR would be used in NASA\u2019s Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM), now in the second phase of its on-orbit demonstration aboard the International Space Station.[\/pullquote]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">This photograph looks closely at one of the tools that could be used for satellite servicing in the future: the Visual Inspection Poseable Invertebrate Robot (VIPIR), a robotic, articulating borescope equipped with a second motorized, zoom-lens camera that would help mission operators who need robotic eyes to troubleshoot anomalies, investigate micrometeoroid strikes, and carry out teleoperated satellite-repair jobs. NASA successfully demonstrated VIPIR\u2019s capabilities earlier this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">VIPIR would be used in NASA\u2019s Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM), now in the second phase of its on-orbit demonstration aboard the International Space Station. RRM is using the Canadian Space Agency\u2019s two-armed robotic handyman, Dextre, to show how future robots could service and refuel satellites in space. During RRM\u2019s third phase, the Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office team at NASA&#8217;s Goddard Space Flight Center plans to demonstrate the transfer of xenon, a colorless, dense noble gas potentially useful for powering ion engines.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA is developing and demonstrating technologies to service and repair satellites in distant orbits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-innovation","category-space-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r.jpg",1041,695,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r.jpg",750,501,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r-1024x683.jpg",750,500,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r.jpg",1041,695,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r.jpg",1041,695,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r.jpg",1041,695,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r.jpg",854,570,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r.jpg",600,401,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r.jpg",600,401,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r.jpg",734,490,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r.jpg",539,360,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r.jpg",95,63,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r.jpg",640,427,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r.jpg",96,64,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/vipir_camera_r.jpg",150,100,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/innovation\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Innovation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/space-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Space\/ AstroPhysics<\/a>","tag_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}