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On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1)

Building on NASA’s history of upgrading and maintaining assets in space, NASA’s OSAM-1 mission is developing an unprecedented capability for a robust, cost-effective space infrastructure.

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OSAM-1 is a robotic spacecraft equipped with the tools, technologies and techniques needed to extend satellites' lifespans – even those not originally designed to be serviced. OSAM-1 is funded by the Technology Demonstration Missions program, which is located at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama and within NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate headquartered in Washington, D.C. The mission is led by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Mission Type

Technology Demonstration

Partner

Maxar Technologies

ORBIT

Polar low Earth orbit (LEO)

Operations

Autonomous rendezvous and telerobotic refueling

OSAM-1 News

NASA’s Robotic OSAM-1 Mission Completes its Critical Design Review
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NASA’s On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1), a mission that will be the first to robotically refuel a satellite…

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NASA Satellite Servicing Technologies Licensed by Northrop Grumman
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Northrop Grumman recently signed agreements to license three technologies from NASA related to satellite servicing. Two of the technologies were…

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NASA’s On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 Mission Ready for Spacecraft Build
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NASA is one step closer to robotically refueling a satellite and demonstrating in-space assembly and manufacturing thanks to the completion…

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NASA Creates ISAM Consortium

NASA announced a new consortium focused on making in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM) capabilities a routine part of space architectures and mission lifecycles.

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