Sachin: Laterite is a social venture and ourmain mission is to increase access to certain advisory services in Africa that are not available locally and too costly too procure internationally.
"In this mission, what we want to show is that it is technically possible to safely approach a satellite, which we launch together with ourmain satellite, to capture it by means of a robotic arm and to perform a number of services like repairing or maintenance operations, " explained DLR's Dr Manuel Metz.