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Starling

NASA Ames · 2023–now · also Starling 1.0, StarFOX, Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy

Swarm of four CubeSats testing distributed spacecraft autonomy, swarm navigation and onboard decision-making in low Earth orbit.

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Papers: 14
Named in: 7 in title · 13 in abstract · 1 in keywords

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Smallsat 2024 - Starling Cubesat Swarm Technology Demonstration Flight Results

Scott Miller, Caleb Adams, Nahum Alem, Howard Cannon +7 moreSmallSat 2024Jun 10, 2024

Space × AIORBITAL ROBOTICS Multi-Robot & Swarms Rendezvous, Proximity Ops & Docking Guidance, Dynamics & Control Starling

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Jun 10, 2024

Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment: Initial Operations and Flight Results

Justin Kruger, Soon S. Hwang, Simone D'AmicoSmallSat 2024 9 citedJun 10, 2024

Space × RoboticsORBITAL ROBOTICS Multi-Robot & Swarms Rendezvous, Proximity Ops & Docking Starling

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Jun 10, 2024

NASA’s Starling mission and space situational awareness implications

Roger C HUNTER, Elwood F Agasid, Samson Phan, Nathan A Benz +9 moreAMOS 2025Sep 16, 2025

Space × AIORBITAL ROBOTICS Multi-Robot & Swarms Starling

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Sep 16, 2025

Advancing Autonomy in Distributed Space Systems: Insights From on-Orbit Testing with the Starling 1.0 Mission

Caleb Ashmore Adams, Michael J Iatauro, Sergei Gridnev, Brian C Kempa +3 more4S Symposium 2024May 27, 2024

Space × AIORBITAL ROBOTICS Autonomy, Task Planning & Operations Starling

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May 27, 2024

Flight Test of the autonomous Navigation, Guidance, and Control (autoNGC) Software on the Starling Swarm

R C Pritchett, Nathan Stacey, Sun Hur-Diaz, Michael Romeo +5 moreSmallSat 2026Aug 23, 2026

Space × AIORBITAL ROBOTICS Guidance, Dynamics & Control Autonomy, Task Planning & Operations Motion Planning & Navigation Starling

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Aug 23, 2026

Results From NASA’s Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy Project’s Extended Mission on Starling

Caleb Adams, Michael J. Iatauro, Brian Kempa, K. Michael Dalal +3 moreSmallSat 2026Aug 23, 2026

Space × AIORBITAL ROBOTICS Autonomy, Task Planning & Operations Multi-Robot & Swarms Design, Mechanisms & Hardware Starling

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Aug 23, 2026

Advancing Autonomy in Distributed Space Systems: Results From the Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy Experiment on Starling 1.0

Adams, Caleb, Iatauro, Michael, Kempa, Brian, Levinson, Richard +3 morePublished 2025Apr 22, 2025

Space × AIORBITAL ROBOTICS Autonomy, Task Planning & Operations Starling

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Apr 22, 2025

Design and Testing of Autonomous Distributed Space Systems

Nicholas Cramer, Daniel Cellucci, Caleb Adams, Adam Sweet +5 moreSmallSat 2021Aug 7, 2021

Space × AIStarling

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Aug 7, 2021

NASA Small Spacecraft and Distributed Systems Program - Recent and Upcoming Technology Demonstrations and Development Efforts

Roger C Hunter, Christopher E Baker, Justin V Treptow, Samson Phan +4 more4S Symposium 2026May 5, 2026

Space × Robotics × AIORBITAL ROBOTICS Rendezvous, Proximity Ops & Docking Starling

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May 5, 2026

Evaluating Network Performance of Containerized Test Framework for Distributed Space Systems

Walter Vaughan, Alan George, Brian Kempa, Daniel Cellucci +1 moreSmallSat 2022Aug 6, 2022

Space × AIMulti-Robot & Swarms Autonomy, Task Planning & Operations Starling

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Aug 6, 2022

Scaling Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy Operations With Simple Temporal Networks: Introducing Splinter

Michael J. Iatauro, Caleb Adams, Caroline LassiterSmallSat 2026Aug 23, 2026

Space × AIORBITAL ROBOTICS Multi-Robot & Swarms Autonomy, Task Planning & Operations Starling

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Aug 23, 2026

NASA's Small Spacecraft and Distributed Systems: Development and Demonstration of Technologies Enabling Swarms and New Spacecraft Platforms with AI and Edge Computing

Jan Stupl, Rodolphe de Rosee, Samson Phan, Michael Gaunce +10 moreSmallSat 2026Aug 23, 2026

Space × AIORBITAL ROBOTICS Multi-Robot & Swarms Design, Mechanisms & Hardware Starling

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Aug 23, 2026

An Overview of Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy at NASA Ames

Caleb Ashmore Adams, Brian C Kempa, Walter Blair Vaughan, Michael J Iatauro +1 moreSmallSat 2023Aug 5, 2023

Space × AIORBITAL ROBOTICS Autonomy, Task Planning & Operations Multi-Robot & Swarms Starling

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Aug 5, 2023

Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy (DSA): Development of Swarm Autonomy Capability and Scalability for Spacecraft

Jason FugatePreprint 2020Mar 25, 2020

Space × AIORBITAL ROBOTICS Multi-Robot & Swarms Autonomy, Task Planning & Operations Simulation, Digital Twins & Benchmarks Starling

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Mar 25, 2020