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I live for somebody to tell me you can't

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do that it'll never work but you

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wouldn't be crazy to wonder if sending a

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robot to refuel an operational

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spacecraft might run that risk but you

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know engineers have imaginations

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consider this every satellite flying

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right now is bespoke hand-wrought

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customized detailed and extremely

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expensive that's why it pays to figure

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out how to repair and refuel the things

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rather than just replace them there's

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just one problem that's hard to do just

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getting the robot to go where you want

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it to go they don't position precisely

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so you have to do things like build

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leading into the tool an astronaut could

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probably just get it right on there

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because he's right there just like

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performing at Carnegie Hall satellite

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repair missions demand rigorous practice

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and the big practice session on deck is

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called robotic refueling mission or RRM

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at Maryland's Goddard Space Flight

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Center mission planners use a motion

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simulation platform to figure out how to

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get all the parts working together when

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a robot arm clips a wire this fall it'll

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be one small snip for robots one giant

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leap in the business of space-based

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satellite servicing the last space

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shuttle flight delivered Hardware

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looking a lot like this right to

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International Space Station it's a box

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of practice equipment a busy board

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valves nozzles clamps and more to

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simulate the side of an actual satellite

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a Canadian robot called Dexter will

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interact with the practice gear it's

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different in space than here on the

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ground but that's kind of the point the

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whole thing is a learning experience a

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big one we're showing folks that we have

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the capability to use the existing robot

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it was not meant to be used with tools

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to work on our M and we've adapted those

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tools to make them compatible with the

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Dexter robot and also compatible with

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our mock satellite interfaces that we

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have on our M the robot is a very stiff

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rigid interface it's not forgiving like

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an astronauts hand when you push on

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something really hard with the robot you

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build up really large contact forces

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when the astronaut feeds on something

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his wrist might give you know that's

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he's got his own

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internal sort of software compliance

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running station astronauts won't be

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involved this will be a mission run from

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the ground our RM will demonstrate a

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number of essential tasks at the end

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it'll attempt first-of-its-kind

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simulated fuel transfer between two

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pieces of hardware not so easy when

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you're orbiting the planet at 18,000

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miles an hour it's really exciting to

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feel like you're working at the front of

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the way and the work that our team is

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doing is it's uncharted territory the

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robotic refueling mission augers a

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revolution in spacecraft operation and

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design it may be a rehearsal for bigger

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things to come but it's also a direct