This small dexterous spacecraft can crawl around a malfunctioning satellite and help determine what went wrong. The cubesat spacecraft, called AMODS (autonomous mobile on-orbit diagnostic system), was developed by a group of US Navy researchers, led by ensign Ned Hanlon...

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Kendra R Chamberlain
Editor and analyst at The Enterprise Orbit, covering new space business and technology developments; freelance journalist covering telecom, renewable energy technology & smart infrastructure.