NASA's Satellite Servicing Projects Division

06/24/2025

Important update: This account will soon be deactivated. For the latest on our satellites servicing missions, visit NASA NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

09/22/2023

Earlier this week, the spacecraft bus for NASA's On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) mission arrived NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center! This NASA Technology mission plans to be the first to refuel a satellite not designed for servicing in space!

Learn more: https://go.nasa.gov/46jI0X1

09/21/2023

Congrats to NASA's Kennedy Space Center's Amy Felt on her selection for NASA Technology's Early Career Initiative! As part of the program, she'll be developing innovative satellite servicing technologies focused on in-space fluid transfer in collaboration with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.

04/24/2023

In-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM) capabilities enable a more sustainable and robust space ecosystem. They can help us reduce costs and increase operational efficiency due to enhanced longevity, utility, and resilience of spacecraft.

Our new COnsortium for Space Mobility and ISAM Capabilities, or COSMIC, creates a nationwide alliance to invigorate ISAM capability: https://go.nasa.gov/3AcuDtB

04/06/2023

Meet new Goddard Center Director Dr. Makenzie Lystrup!

Dr. Lystrup is Goddard's first-ever female center director. She will lead the next generation of scientists and engineers with her experience from the commercial aerospace industry.

“Goddard is an incredible center and true national asset with the best and brightest minds in science and engineering – I’m humbled and honored to lead such an amazing and diverse world-renowned team."

Learn more about Dr. Lystrup's career: https://go.nasa.gov/40KPLmd

03/30/2023

03/23/2023

This past fall, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center hosted a workshop on In-space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (ISAM) capabilities, welcoming domestic companies, academia, and other government agencies to collaborate on a sustainable future in space. Learn more about the vision for these crucial technologies: https://go.nasa.gov/3H7EXba

📷 credit: NASA/Michael Guinto

02/27/2023

Utilizing artificial intelligence in hardware design, organic forms meet the needs of challenging mission concepts. These "evolved structures" can be lighter, stronger, and developed quicker than those designed using traditional methods.

Learn more:

Research Engineer Ryan McClelland pioneered the design of one-off spacecraft and mission elements for NASA using commercially available AI software.

02/27/2023

01/31/2023

Space Tech leaders visited Maxar to see the OSAM-1 (short for On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1) spacecraft and SPIDER payload before the technologies are delivered to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center for final integration and testing. This NASA's Satellite Servicing Projects Division demonstration will be the first to robotically refuel a satellite not designed for servicing.

Learn more: https://nexis.gsfc.nasa.gov/OSAM-1.html

01/30/2023

Earlier this month, NASA Administrator Senator Bill Nelson, Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, and Congressman John Sarbanes visited NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. During their tour, they stopped by the Robotic Operations Center to meet with the team developing satellite servicing NASA Technology!

Outside the robotics facility, Senator Nelson and Deputy Administrator Melroy spoke with the leadership team for NASA's Exploration and In-space Services (NExIS) division and the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) mission. NExIS Director Jill McGuire shared how Goddard supports the In-space Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (ISAM) strategies set by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. ISAM technologies and capabilities will open new possibilities to build, repair, and transport objects in space!

Inside a Goddard acoustic test chamber, OSAM-1 Project Manager Brent Robertson updated assembled guests on integration and testing for the mission. The OSAM-1 mission will be the first to robotically refuel a spacecraft not designed for servicing!

In addition to conversations with NExIS and OSAM-1 leadership, Senator Nelson and Deputy Administrator Melroy addressed the entire NExIS and OSAM-1 community. They also met some of the interns and early career professionals contributing to ISAM innovation!