Engineers Conduct First in-Orbit Test of 'Swarm' Satellite Autonomous Navigation
August 09, 2024
August 09, 2024
STANFORD, California, Aug. 9 (TNSres) -- Stanford University issued the following news release:
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With 2D cameras and space robotics algorithms, astronautics engineers at Stanford have created a navigation system able to manage multiple satellites using visual data only. They just tested it in space for the first time.
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Someday, instead of large, expensive individual space satellites, teams of smaller satellites - known by scientists a . . .
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With 2D cameras and space robotics algorithms, astronautics engineers at Stanford have created a navigation system able to manage multiple satellites using visual data only. They just tested it in space for the first time.
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Someday, instead of large, expensive individual space satellites, teams of smaller satellites - known by scientists a . . .