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Starling’s successful mission demonstrates the potential of satellite swarms in autonomous navigation and operations, paving the way for advanced space traffic coordination. Credit: Blue Canyon Technologies/NASA
By sharing observational work across a swarm, each spacecraft can “share the load” and observe different data or work together to provide deeper analysis, reducing human workload, and keeping the spacecraft working without the need for new commands sent from the ground. The team successfully completed all the MANET experiment objectives, including demonstrating routing commands and data to one of the spacecraft having trouble with space to ground communications, a valuable benefit of a cooperative spacecraft swarm.
The Reconfiguration and Orbit Maintenance Experiments Onboard system tests onboard maneuver planning and execution by estimating the spacecraft’s orbit and planning a maneuver to a new desired orbit.
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