"Call it space grave robbery for a cause: Imagine scavenging defunct communication satellites for their valuable parts and recycling them to build brand new ones for cheap.
It's the latest pet project from the Pentagon's research wing known for its quirky and sometimes out-there ideas. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is spending $180 million to test technologies that could make this possible."
As said in the above quote DARPA is the odd one out that does some strange/cool things. With partners they have created things such as the Javelin Missile, XOS1 and XOS2, and this new project to go scavenger on junked satlites, in orbit.
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