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Reynald Seznec, chief executive of Thales Alenia Space of France and Italy, said he viewed the idea “with mixed feelings. We need this kind of innovation in the industry, but I would think it is more suitable for higher-value institutional satellites, not commercial satellites.”
David W. Thompson, chief executive of Orbital Sciences of Dulles, Va., agreed with Seznec, saying a satellite servicing project likely could not find its initial footing in the commercial market.
“I would think a servicing model could be viable in 10 years,” Thompson said. “It probably will require some kind of public-private partnership, and it is not likely that the earliest market will be in geostationary orbit,” the destination of most commercial telecommunications satellites
The first keystone mission of the Phoenix program in 2015 plans to demonstrate harvesting an existing, cooperative, retired satellite aperture, by physically separating it from the host non-working satellite using on-orbit grappling tools controlled remotely from earth. The aperture will then be reconfigured into a ‘new’ free-flying space system and operated independently to demonstrate the concept of space “re-use.