Northrop Grumman Corporation’s SpaceLogistics LLC has received the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s (NRL) robotics payload, including two robotic arms and electronics, for its Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV).
The delivery brings the company one step closer to delivering the first commercial spacecraft with robotic servicing capabilities for commercial and government satellites. In geosynchronous Earth orbit (22.500 miles above Earth), the MRV will inspect, relocate, repair and provide other servicing missions in space, including deploying the company’s Mission Extension Pods to sustain existing on-orbit capabilities.
Once the robotic payload, developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Geosynchronous Satellite Robotic Servicing program, is fully integrated, the completed MRV spacecraft will undergo environmental testing to validate its performance in space.
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