By Simone D'Amico Jan 11, 2022
I am happy to report that we have passed the Integration Readiness Review (IRR) of the NASA Ames' STARLING mission and delivered Flight Software Release 6 (gold). STARLING consists of four CubeSats to demonstrate autonomous swarming capabilities in space. Launch is due in June 2022.
The Space Rendezvous Laboratory is responsible for the Angles-only Absolute and Relative Trajectory Measurement System (ARTMS) which aims at unprecedented distributed and autonomous navigation using optical cameras without GPS/GNSS. More details here:
Koenig A. W., Kruger J., Sullivan J., D'Amico S.; ARTMS: Enabling Autonomous Distributed Angles-Only Orbit Estimation for Spacecraft Swarms; 2021 American Control Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 26-28 (2021).
Kruger J., Wallace K., Koenig A. W., D'Amico S.; Autonomous Angles-Only Navigation for Spacecraft Swarms around Planetary Bodies; IEEE Aerospace Conference, Yellowstone Conference Center, Big Sky, Montana, March 6-13 (2021).
Congratulations to the whole STARLING team.
Simone D'Amico is the founder and director of SLAB
