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Surrey engineers use games console technology to make “space building blocks”

Submit on Monday, May 28th, 2012 22:57

Space innovators at the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) are developing ‘STRaND-2′, a twin-satellite mission to test a novel in-orbit docking system based upon XBOX Kinect technology that could change the way space assets are built, maintained and decommissioned, SSTL said.
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