NASA’s OSAM-1 Is Brilliant. That’s Why It’s Doomed.
NASA’s OSAM-1 satellite repair mission is an engineering marvel — but it may fail not because the technology is too hard, but because the market isn’t ready to pay for it. The real bottleneck isn’t robotics; it’s the economic incentive to keep building disposable satellites. This article explores why the most brilliant innovations often stumble not on feasibility, but on timing.