Rrm paves the way for a future robotic servicing mission by demonstrating that a remotecontrolled robot can overcome these obstacles to service and refuel a satellite on. Jill mcguire, robotic refueling mission project manager. Rrm satellite missions eoportal directory esa earth online. Maximum mission smm demonstrated onorbit repairs to fix critical components. It demonstrates technology needed to refuel a satellite in space.
Satellite servicing capabilities office, goddard space flight center. Leakagefree valves would allow for the transfer of fuel to the serviced. Pdf towards a standardized grasping and refuelling onorbit. Goddard robotic refueling mission3 motiv space systems. The previous phase of the robotic refueling mission rrm2 demonstrated many preparation tasks leading up to cryogen replenishment such as removing capsvalves, and installing coolant line adapters. Deutsche orbital servicing mission was a robotic technology demonstration mission that consisted. Space exploration has captured our attention for over half of a century. Since 2009, sspd has been advancing the robotic technologies for a notional freeflying servicer spacecraft that could access, repair and refuel satellites in. Rrm3 robotic operations will focus on the final step of connecting, sealing and managing the hoses needed to enable cryogenic fuel transfer onorbit. The robotic refueling mission rrm is a nasa technology demonstration mission with equipment launches in both 2011 and 20 to increase the.
Pdf the paper presents the feasibility study results for a mission devoted to refuel satellites in. With a renewed focus on exploration, nasa is developing new space technologies and capabilities that pave the way for missions back to the moon and beyond. Robotic refueling mission scientific visualization. The robotic refueling mission 3, or rrm3, will prove technologies. Motiv is developing and delivering state of the art motion control electronics for use on this mission. Robotic refueling mission satellite servicing projects division. Refueling spacecraft throughout long duration missions, just like refilling your gas tank on a road trip, would leave additional room for other missioncritical. A robotic capture concept was developed that is based on a chaser satellite. From the international space station, rrm3 will demonstrate cuttingedge technologies to store and transfer liquid methane in space. The agency will advance long duration mission critical capabilities with the robotic refueling mission 3 rrm3. First use of the international space stations dextre robot for technology research and development.
Attention was drawn to the disturbance of the spatial position of the base that is induced by the motion of the manipulator. Pdf on orbit refueling for lowthrust based geosynchronous. The orbital refueling system tested by astronaut kathryn d. Rrm3 will demonstrate several key technologies for satellite servicing including cryogenic fluid transfer and refueling technologies. The easier solution is a simple free expansion where the mass. Engineers at nasas goddard space flight center in greenbelt, maryland, perform a fit check of rrm3s three external tools. After rrm3 is installed to the outside of the international space. Restorel, a mission officially in formulation, will launch a freeflying robotic servicer to refuel a governmentowned satellite in leo by mid 2020. This will be transported to space station on sts5 in june 2011.
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