美国国防部五角大楼一研究机构已着手研制小型机器人来为美国的在轨间谍卫星和在轨空间平台服务。美国防部先进研究项目战术技术办公室的主任戴维德·威兰说:“该项目被称做是轨道特快,用来提高服务于国家安全用卫星的机动性,由于其体积较小、数量众多,很难被对手跟踪,因此有很好的应用前景。”该机器人飞行器能够在轨道上长期工作,能够从轨道的隐藏处或空间站上提取燃料、电子设备和各种物资,实现与间谍卫星等空间平台的对接,加注燃料和进行在轨维修任务。该自动 A research institute of the Pentagon of the U.S. Department of Defense has started to develop small robots to serve U.S. orbiting spy satellites and on-orbit space platforms. David Weilan, director of tactical technology office, Advanced Research Program, US Department of Defense, said: “This project is known as orbital express and is designed to increase the mobility of satellites serving national security. Due to its small size and large volume, Difficult to be tracked by adversaries, so it has a good prospect. ”The robot aircraft can long-term work in orbit, can be hidden from the track or space station to extract fuel, electronic equipment and various materials to achieve and spy satellite space platform Docking, refueling and in-orbit maintenance tasks. That automatically