VERVE: A 3D Operations Tool for Space Robots
DW Wheeler, Mark Allan, Julius GyorfiSpaceOps 2025
Mission / Earth orbit
NASA Ames · 2014–now · also Astrobee free-flyer
Three cube-shaped free-flying robots operating inside the ISS since 2019, used as a research platform for microgravity robotics and autonomy.
Official mission page101–107 of 107 papers naming Astrobee
DW Wheeler, Mark Allan, Julius GyorfiSpaceOps 2025
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