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Mission / Earth orbit

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.

Official mission page

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

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Top techniques

Multi-Robot & Swarms9
Autonomy, Task Planning & Operations8
Rendezvous, Proximity Ops & Docking3
Design, Mechanisms & Hardware2
Guidance, Dynamics & Control2
Motion Planning & Navigation1

Top venues

SmallSat9
4S Symposium2
AMOS1

Also mentioned

No other mission is named alongside Starling.

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PLANETARY ROBOTICS0ISRU & CONSTRUCTION0ORBITAL ROBOTICS1IN-SPACE SERVICING0PROGRAMS & POLICY0Unassigned0

Manipulation & Grasping0Surface Mobility & Terramechanics0Microgravity Mobility & Free-Flyers0Rendezvous, Proximity Ops & Docking3Perception & State Estimation0Motion Planning & Navigation1Guidance, Dynamics & Control2Learning-based Methods0Foundation Models & LLMs0Autonomy, Task Planning & Operations8HRI & Teleoperation0Multi-Robot & Swarms9Simulation, Digital Twins & Benchmarks1Design, Mechanisms & Hardware2

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Space robotics & aerospace

iSpaRo0i-SAIRAS0ASTRA0IEEE Aerospace0IAC0AIAA SciTech0AIAA SPACE / ASCEND0SMC-IT/SCC0IEEE SPACE0ASCE Earth & Space0SmallSat1AMOS0SpaceOps0AAS GN&C0AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics0AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics0ICES0Aerospace Mechanisms04S Symposium0COSPAR0Space Resources Roundtable0NASA Technical Report0LPSC0

Robotics

ICRA0IROS0RSS0CoRL0Humanoids0CASE0AIM0ROBIO0SII0Robomec0

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1 paper naming Starling

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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

Aug 23, 2026