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DARPA wants vampire satellites to harvest parts from dead sats prior to de-orbit
A new DARPA solicition seeks "swarming robot space vampires" (in JWZ's evocative phrasing) to disassemble and harvest valuable components from decommissioned satellites before they're deorbited, to use as spare parts for the stuff that's still functional: More than $300 billion worth of satellites are estimated to be in the geosynchronous orbit (GEO22,000 miles above the [...]
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