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NASA cancels multibillion-dollar on-orbit satellite servicing mission
Artist's illustration of the OSAM-1 servicing satellite docking with another spacecraft. (Image credit: NASA) NASA has canceled a complex and costly satellite-servicing demonstration mission.The On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly and Manufacturing (OSAM)-1 spacecraft was to use a robotic arm and other tools to grapple the Landsat 7 Earth-observation satellite and refuel it. OSAM-1 also would have carried
NASA cancels a multibillion-dollar satellite servicing demo mission
Enlarge / Artist's illustration of the OSAM-1 spacecraft (bottom) linking up with the Landsat 7 satellite (top) in orbit.NASA NASA has canceled an over-budget, behind-schedule mission to demonstrate robotic satellite servicing technology in orbit, pulling the plug on a project that has cost $1.5 billion and probably would have cost nearly $1 billion more to