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Orbit Fab unveils $30K port to refuel satellites
Orbit Fab wants to build a network of gas stations in space.
As part of the company’s efforts to eventually build tech capable of prospecting a distant asteroid, DSI built satellite thrusters for orbital maneuvering. Part of it is simple math: colleagues and former customers told him that they could squeeze as much as $1 million in marginal revenue from satellite missions from an extra kilogram of propellant. The startup’s technology is ambitious, but the architecture is fairly simple: the idea is to equip customer satellites with the refueling port (Faber referred to it as a ‘gas cap,’ but it’s officially called RAFTI) while the hardware is still on Earth.
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