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DARPA’s RSGS Progresses Despite Lawsuit, Justice Department Moves To Dismiss

Pat Host

Friday, April 14th, 2017

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DARPA’s RSGS Progresses Despite Lawsuit, Justice Department Moves To Dismiss

Artist's illustration of DARPA's proposed RSGS satellite. Photo: DARPA.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is moving forward with its geostationary earth orbit (GEO) satellite servicing program despite a lawsuit that the Justice Department on Tuesday moved to dismiss.Space Systems Loral (SSL) said Wednesday it signed and executed a contract with DARPA to develop advanced capabilities for servicing and maintaining spacecraft in GEO. The program is known as Robotic Servicing of Geostationary Satellites (RSGS) and intends to develop technologies that would enable cooperative inspection and servicing some 22,000…

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