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Research/ SPACE AI & AUTONOMY

Astra--Autonomous Satellite Technology for Resilient Applications: A Technology Demonstrator

Lauren Underwood, Fernando Figueroa, Zachary Lewton, Landon Tynes, Travis Martin, Jonathan Morris, Quentin Oswald, John Curry

SmallSat 2025/Aug 10, 2025/NASA Stennis Space Center

Space × AIORBITAL ROBOTICS

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NTRSSpacecraft Design, Testing and Performance

ASTRA is an on-orbit technology demonstrator establishing a new paradigm for implementing on-board “thinking.” ASTRA is a system-level autonomy capability (including digital twins, anomaly detection, diagnostics/prognostics, and mission management) enabled by an innovative technology, NPAS - NASA Platform for Autonomous Systems.

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@inproceedings{underwood2025astraautonomous,
  title = {{Astra--Autonomous Satellite Technology for Resilient Applications: A Technology Demonstrator}},
  author = {Lauren Underwood and Fernando Figueroa and Zachary Lewton and Landon Tynes and Travis Martin and Jonathan Morris and Quentin Oswald and John Curry},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {39th Annual Small Satellite Conference},
  url = {https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20250006493}
}

Why it's indexed

Classifier scores: space 13, robotics 0, AI 6. How this works

on-orbiton orbitsatelliteorbitnasaanomaly detectionautonomyautonomous

Sources: ntrs

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