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DARPA’s robot sat-fixing program survives sueball strike

Aerospace firm says there’s no market for this stuff, wants to build it anyway

Aerospace company Orbital ATK has failed in a legal bid to halt a DARPA contract for robotic satellite maintenance devices and will instead see if the White House can help it to bring the work to the private sector.…

http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/17/darpas_robotic_servicing_of_geosynchronous_satellites_survives_lawsuit/