Orbit Fab completes ground test of satellite fueling payload
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WASHINGTON — Orbit Fab, a Colorado-based startup developing hardware for in-space satellite refueling, announced a successful test of its fueling nozzle known as GRIP (Grapple, Reposition, and Interface Payload) which is intended to dock with satellites and transfer propellant.
CEO Daniel Faber said in an interview that the testing, conducted at an Air Force Research Laboratory facility at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, demonstrated GRIP’s ability to dock with a satellite equipped with Orbit Fab’s RAFTI (Rapidly Attachable Fluid Transfer Interface) refueling port.
