Projects
The Four Pillars of Our Research
The Stanford's Space Rendezvous Lab (SLAB) is built on four pillars of research which feed one another in closed loop to accomplish our mission. These pillars expose the students to the full spectrum of the developmental cycle of a space mission with a focus on fundamental research and algorithms related to multi-agent GN&C for distributed space systems.

Overview of Our Projects
Our work lies at the intersection of Astrodynamics, Guidance/Navigation/Control (GN&C), Environment Characterization and Decision Making to enable future Distributed Space Systems (DSS). These include but are not limited to: spacecraft formation-flying, rendezvous and docking, swarms, and fractionated space architectures. Our work will help humanity address fundamental questions of space science, technology, exploration, and sustainability. Check out more of our projects in the link below!
Flight Missions

StarFOX: A Formation-Flying Optical Experiment on the NASA Starling Mission

Space Weather Atmospheric Reconfigurable Multiscale Experiment (SWARM-EX)
AI for Space

SPN: Spacecraft Networks for Pose Estimations and 3D Model Abstraction

Machine Learning Datasets for Computer Vision in Space
Flight-Ready Software

RPO kit: Autonomous GNC Software for the Proximity Operations

FALCON: Fast Autonomous Lost-in-space Catalog-based Optical Navigation

S3 - Digital and Robotic Twinning for Spacecraft Autonomy
Future Mission Concepts
