StarFOX Update #2: Preparing for “day in the life” testing!

Our next big StarFOX milestone is “day in the life” (DITL) testing, where for the first time, StarFOX software will be run on Starling satellites at NASA Ames for a full 24-hour test period. The goal of DITL testing is to go through – as the name suggests – a typical day in the life […]

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StarFOX Update #1: Publishing lunar navigation results.

This past week, we presented initial results of applying ARTMS navigation in lunar orbit at the ION International Technical Meeting in Long Beach. ARTMS, or the Absolute and Relative Trajectory Measurement System, is the multi-spacecraft autonomous navigation architecture for StarFOX. StarFOX will test ARTMS in low Earth orbit, but ARTMS itself can be generalised to […]

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