Nate Rott
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30 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Jul
Nate Rott’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So that's why they raced to launch this robot, which was designed by an Arizona-based startup to try and give Swift a boost.
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Its goal is to sync up with Swift to grab onto it with these like three lobster-like claw robotic arms and then gently push it up into a higher orbit.
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And Ayesha, part of what makes this thing so remarkable is that this has never been done before.
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Like the Hubble Space Telescope has been serviced, but it was done by people, by astronauts in space.
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This is a fully autonomous robot lifting a telescope that was never designed to be lifted.
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Well, that's definitely the hope that instead of, you know, just letting commercial satellites or research ones reenter the atmosphere and burn up, this technology could allow them to be serviced.
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So, you know, components could be upgraded, their altitudes boosted, which Senko says would make the space industry much more sustainable.
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But he also says this technology is likely to draw a lot of interest from the defense community if it works, because, you know, being able to move another country's satellite could be something the governments are interested in doing.
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Hey, thank you.
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