After 10 months in orbit, the Starling spacecraft swarm successfully demonstrated its primary mission's key objectives, representing significant achievements in the capability of swarm configurations.

NASA calls it Starling, and, just like its almost-namesake Starlink, it is a satellite swarm. The space agency launched it into orbit in the summer of last year, and since then it has been busy ...

Could autonomous CubeSats someday be used for deep space exploration? This is what a recent demonstration by SpaceX’s Starling swarm of four CubeSats hopes to address as NASA announced the 10-month ...

With 2D cameras and space robotics algorithms, astronautics engineers have created a navigation system able to manage multiple satellites using visual data only. They just tested it in space for the ...

NASA has successfully developed and tested Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy (DSA), a groundbreaking technology that enables spacecraft swarms to make independent yet ...

Astronauts living and working on the moon and Mars will rely on satellites to provide services like navigation, weather, and communications relays. While managing complex missions, automating ...

LAFAYETTE, Colo., Aug. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- RTX (RTX)'s (NYSE: RTX) small-satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies (BCT), announces successful launch and ...