In 2014, the year in space will "gas station"

These stations will actually be for satellites. The Canadian company («MacDonald, Dettwiler, & Associates») is developing the project "filling stations" at orbital stations. When satellites orbiting the planet will run out of fuel, they can "fill up" at one of these gas stations and continue to work.

Currently, satellites are worth hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars to operate only emptying the fuel tank. Then they orbiting the planet in the next 10-15 years, and either burn up in the atmosphere, falling to the earth, or fly into space in the form of useless junk.

The project space gas station can save billions of dollars in telecommunications companies and government intelligence agencies, so that $ 280 million contract with MDA, allowing access to satellites "gas stations", it is quite a bargain.

via factroom.ru