DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS OF ROBOTIC SERVICE SATELLITES FOR MAINTENANCE PURPOSES AND ACTIVE LIFETIME EXTENSION OF SPACECRAFT

DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS OF ROBOTIC SERVICE SATELLITES FOR MAINTENANCE PURPOSES AND ACTIVE LIFETIME EXTENSION OF SPACECRAFT

I.Yu. Dalyaev
Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (RTC), Head of Sector, 21, Tikhoretsky pr., Saint-Petersburg, 194064, Russia, tel.: +7(812)552-60-93, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

E.M. Kuznetsova
RTC, Junior Research Scientist, 21, Tikhoretsky pr., Saint-Petersburg, 194064, Russia, tel.: +7(812)552-61-77, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

I.V. Shardyko
RTC, Research Scientist, 21, Tikhoretsky pr., Saint-Petersburg, 194064, Russia, tel.: +7(812)552-60-93, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


Abstract
Actuality of maintenance service process for spacecrafts is evaluated. Classification of maintenance service operations for satellites is given. Prospects of development and application of robotic satellites for spacecraft maintenance purposes are analysed. Project layouts of robotic systems, developed in Russian State Scientific Center for Robotics and Technical Cybernetics (RTC), for such service spacecrafts are described.

Key words
Spacecraft, satellites maintenance service, robotic service satellites, on-orbit servicing operations, space manipulator.

Year 2015 Issue number 3 Consecutive issue number 8 Pages 27-31
UDC identifier: 629.783:007.52

 

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