Orbital Express NEXTSat serviceable spacecraft
NEXTSat was Ball Aerospace's prototype serviceable client spacecraft for Orbital Express. It provided cooperative docking, fluid-transfer, and modular-hardware interfaces so ASTRO could demonstrate autonomous servicing. Its role was to receive servicing and support repeated separation, rendezvous, capture, and mating tests.
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- Aliases
- NEXTSatNext Generation Serviceable SatelliteOrbital Express client
- Family Name
- Orbital Express NEXTSat
- Full Name
- Orbital Express NEXTSat serviceable spacecraft
- Roles
- technology_demonstrator
- Status
- retired
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- NEXTSat was Ball Aerospace's prototype serviceable client spacecraft for Orbital Express. It provided cooperative docking, fluid-transfer, and modular-hardware interfaces so ASTRO could demonstrate autonomous servicing. Its role was to receive servicing and support repeated separation, rendezvous, capture, and mating tests.
- First Flight Year
- 2,007
- Manufacturer
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- Creation Time
- October 29, 2026 at 15:25:26 UTC
- Updated Time
- October 29, 2026 at 15:25:26 UTC
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