Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy
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NASA
What is NASA’s Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy?
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 satellite communications will allow explorers to focus on critical tasks instead of manually operating satellites. Long duration space missions will require teaming between systems on Earth and other planets. Satellites orbiting the Moon,…
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NASA Demonstrates Software ‘Brains’ Shared Across Satellite Swarms
Talk amongst yourselves, get on the same page, and work together to get the job done! This “pep talk” roughly describes how new NASA technology works within satellite swarms. This technology, called Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy (DSA), allows individual spacecraft to make independent decisions while collaborating with each other to achieve common goals – all without human input. NASA researchers have…
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NASA Invites Media to Learn about Spacecraft Autonomous Tech Firsts
NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley invites media to learn more about Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy (DSA), a technology that allows individual spacecraft to make independent decisions while collaborating with each other to achieve common goals – without human input. The DSA team achieved multiple firsts during tests of such swarm technology as part of the agency’s project. DSA develops software tools…
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