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SAN FRANCISCO – A NASA formation flight experiment shows the promise of autonomous navigation for swarms of satellites. The four cubesats in the Starling Optical Formation Flight Experiment, or StarFOX, calculate their orbits by combining visual images from star trackers with robotic algorithms. “Such a visual navigation system on a swarm of satellites can be
PALO ALTO, California – The Center for Aerospace Autonomy Research (CAESAR) at Stanford University held an inaugural event on May 22 to highlight the industry-academia-government collaboration it seeks to foster. “We founded CAESAR with the goal of addressing and solving the problem of spacecraft autonomy through the judicious incorporation of intelligent artificial components,” said Simone
