NASA And This Company Join To Make A “Tractor Beam”

Here is a bit more from this company “Arx Pax” and the announcement they just made today about their partnership:

That’s right: Today, Arx Pax is announcing a new partnership with NASA, which wants to use hover engine technology to capture and manipulate micro-satellites. In other words, NASA and Arx Pax are going to try to create a magnetic tractor beam. A small one.

In a statement issued today, Arx Pax says it’ll be working with NASA “to design a device with the ability to attract one object to another from a distance.” At this stage, the focus will be on linking up CubeSats – those lightweight, 10 by 10 cm satellites that NASA and other researchers are using to monitor the Earth, and that we may eventually deploy to explore distant worlds.

With any new technology, just like in many sci fi movies, it has to be used responsibly.  What do you think, is this a good idea and what applications could it be used for in future iterations?

thanks to gudgets.com for the great info

thanks to NASA for the pic



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  2. Eric Myers said:

    Not sure how this applies to space right now. You can’t tractor a object from another spacecraft. The 2 objects would be pulled together. The tractor beam works in sci fi, because those use advanced propulsion and are static in space.

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