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he Ulysses spacecraft was launched in 1990 on a planned five-year mission; keeping the hugely successful spacecraft operating for more than 17 years has presented operations engineers on the ground with a series of unique challenges.
Read MoreThe first fully automated docking with the International Space Station (ISS) has been accomplished by the European Space Agency's ATV Jules Verne.
Read MoreThe European Space Agency (ESA) has reported that the Jules Verne ATV approached the International Space Station to within 11-m of the docking port on the Russian Zvezda module.
Read MoreThe challenge is enormous for the Jules Verne ATV... a successful first attempt at the automated docking with the International Space Station (ISS) will depend on very tight teamwork, excellent coordination and a superb understanding of the spacecraft and its complex automated control systems.
Read MoreThe Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has reached a parking position 2000 km ahead of the International Space Station (ISS).
Read MoreThe Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has managed yet another critical test success... this time, the craft's Collision Avoidance Maneuver (CAM) worked as planned.
Read MoreThe European Space Agency's (ESA) Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) successfully performed two boosts on Wednesday.
Read MoreA team headed by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] Space Systems Company (LMSSC) has received a $5.7 million contract from Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to compete in the Phase 1 development of their System F6 space technology and demonstration program.
Read MoreAn unqualified success… a conclusion that now thrums with delight through the very soul of folk who work at Boeing, specifically Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, as the firm’s fourth-month demo of the Boeing Orbital Express system in the rigors of space reach their culmination.
Read MoreThe key technologies and work on reducing the technological risk to allow autonomous spacecraft rendezvous and docking to become a reliable reality are being worked on currently by the Naval Research Laboratory’s Naval Center for Space Technology NRL and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DRPA). As a matter of fact, the NRL achieved a key milestone toward this development of autonomous servicing of unaided spacecraft.
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