Spheres: from Ground Development to ISS Operations
Aric KatterhagenISS R&D 2016 Conference
Mission / Earth orbit
NASA / MIT · 2006–2019 · also Synchronized Position Hold Engage and Reorient Experimental Satellites
MIT-built free-flying satellites inside the ISS that served as a long-running testbed for formation flight, docking and autonomy algorithms.
Official mission page5 papers naming SPHERES
Aric KatterhagenISS R&D 2016 Conference
Samuel P BarbaroPreprint 2012
Christopher M. Jewison, David Sternberg, Bryan McCarthy, D. W. Miller +1 morePreprint 2014 8 cited
Courtney Bashnick, Steve UlrichJGCD 2023 58 cited
Brent E. Tweddle, Timothy P. Setterfield, Alvar Saenz‐Otero, David W. Miller +1 moreIROS 2014 9 cited