Back in 2015, I was part of an EU Marie Curie ITN network called Stardust [1] working on something similar.
We utilized robotic arms and a novel non-contact, detumbling technology (using eddy currents) to approach and remove Ariane rocket bodies [2].
It was a fascinating project and I subsequently worked on investigating mission analysis approaches to compute multi-target rendezvous sequences, specifically assessing the impact of orbital perturbations on the use of semi-analytical transfer leg design algorithms [3].
You might be interested in the follow-up to the Stardust network, dubbed Stardust-R [4]. Happy to connect you with any of the organizations involved if it's helpful.
It was the frustration of trying to manually deal with collecting information for component, subsystem, and system trade studies that led to me wondering if an 'amazon for space' [5] wouldn't help engineers focus on the really hard engineering instead of Googling :) [shameless plug]
Would love to learn more about your Droid platform if you're interested in chatting!
Back in 2015, I was part of an EU Marie Curie ITN network called Stardust [1] working on something similar.
We utilized robotic arms and a novel non-contact, detumbling technology (using eddy currents) to approach and remove Ariane rocket bodies [2].
It was a fascinating project and I subsequently worked on investigating mission analysis approaches to compute multi-target rendezvous sequences, specifically assessing the impact of orbital perturbations on the use of semi-analytical transfer leg design algorithms [3].
You might be interested in the follow-up to the Stardust network, dubbed Stardust-R [4]. Happy to connect you with any of the organizations involved if it's helpful.
It was the frustration of trying to manually deal with collecting information for component, subsystem, and system trade studies that led to me wondering if an 'amazon for space' [5] wouldn't help engineers focus on the really hard engineering instead of Googling :) [shameless plug]
Would love to learn more about your Droid platform if you're interested in chatting!
[1] https://www.stardust2013.eu
[2] https://www.dfki.de/web/forschung/projekte-publikationen/pub...
[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02731...
[4] http://www.stardust-network.eu
[5] https://satsearch.com