ESA fired a ‘non-explosive actuator’ in stuck bracket of the ESA JUICE spacecraft's RIME antenna to jar in loose. Mission controllers have been trouble shooting the antenna deployment for 3 weeks.

Mr. Tibbitts was the founder and CEO of Starsys Research Corporation in Boulder Colorado, a company created to bring a promising thermal actuator technology to the spacecraft industry, and now a world ...

The space sensors and actuators market is categorized into ... segment is attributed to rising investments in satellite deployment and the expansion of private space enterprises.

including actuator faults and parametric uncertainties. By employing a six-degrees of freedom (6-DOF) control architecture based on SE(3), these methods ensure that spacecraft can maintain ...