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Air Force Space Command Eyes ‘Self-Healing’ Satellites

By Marc Selinger

Friday, August 19th, 2016

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Air Force Space Command Eyes ‘Self-Healing’ Satellites

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- U.S. Air Force Space Command is exploring the possibility of developing “self-healing satellites,” in which a spacecraft could “shed” a nonfunctioning part “in a command sense,” according to a command official.After shedding the faulty part, a self-healing satellite would “reroute the capability within the spacecraft, before the human ever gets involved, so that the spacecraft can continue to stay functional,” said Merri Sanchez, the command’s chief scientist. Self-healing was among a host of potential capabilities Sanchez highlighted during…

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