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Sep 14 – Sep 20, 2026 · 13 papers published

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PLANETARY ROBOTICS 3 ISRU & CONSTRUCTION 2 ORBITAL ROBOTICS 5 IN-SPACE SERVICING 1

PINGU: Extending Air-Bearing Spacecraft Emulators with Open-Source Actuators and Learned Control for Contact-Rich Proximity Operations

Ricard Marsal I Castan, Akiyoshi Uchida, Aman Arora, Pedro Lima +6 morePreprint 2026Sep 20, 2026

Space × Robotics × AIORBITAL ROBOTICS Learning-based Methods Simulation, Digital Twins & Benchmarks Guidance, Dynamics & Control

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Sep 20, 2026

VISTA: An Attention-Based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Architecture for Space Situational Awareness Sensor Tasking

Miguel Leiva-Vélez, Adalberto Claudio Quiros, Nicolas Gaston Rozado, Hodei Urrutxua +1 morePreprint 2026Sep 20, 2026

Space × AILearning-based Methods Multi-Robot & Swarms Guidance, Dynamics & Control

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Sep 20, 2026

AstraHeal: Deterministic Safety Gating for Uncertainty-Aware Autonomous Spacecraft Fault Recovery

Madan ThambisettyPublished 2026Sep 20, 2026

Space × AIORBITAL ROBOTICS Guidance, Dynamics & Control Autonomy, Task Planning & Operations Simulation, Digital Twins & Benchmarks

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Sep 20, 2026

Distributed Infrastructure Sensors and Cues for Robotic Fire-Fighting and Safety System on a Lunar Base

Alexis Munguia, Eryc Rodriguez, Drake Russ, Jekan ThangavelauthamPreprint 2026Sep 19, 2026

Space × RoboticsISRU & CONSTRUCTION Autonomy, Task Planning & Operations HRI & Teleoperation

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Sep 19, 2026

HAT: Hypothesis-Anchored Tracking for Video Monocular Spacecraft Pose Estimation

André Lopo, Atabak Dehban, Rodrigo VenturaPreprint 2026 1 citedSep 18, 2026

Space × RoboticsORBITAL ROBOTICS IN-SPACE SERVICING Perception & State Estimation Rendezvous, Proximity Ops & Docking Learning-based Methods

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Sep 18, 2026

Comparative analysis of Neural Networks approaches for Initial Orbit Determination of Near-Earth Objects

Francesco Geroni, Roberto Paoli, Riccardo Massidda, Giacomo TommeiPreprint 2026Sep 18, 2026

Space × AILearning-based Methods

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Sep 18, 2026

Resilient Motion Planning for Free-Flying Space Robots under Actuator Failures

Nicolas de Maddalena, Joris Verhagen, Jana TumovaPreprint 2026Sep 17, 2026

Space × RoboticsORBITAL ROBOTICS Microgravity Mobility & Free-Flyers Design, Mechanisms & Hardware Motion Planning & Navigation

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Sep 17, 2026

SpaceDiffusion: Over-the-Orbit Diffusion for Space Generate-and-Forward Communications

Jianhao Huang, Zhanwei Wang, Khaled B. Letaief, Kaibin HuangPreprint 2026Sep 17, 2026

Space × AI

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Sep 17, 2026

WISE: A Lightweight, Weakly-Supervised Model for Onboard Fire Smoke Detection and Localization

Sha Lu, Yu Sun, Liang Zhao, Jixue Liu +5 moreISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2026Sep 16, 2026

Space × AIORBITAL ROBOTICS Perception & State Estimation Learning-based Methods

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Sep 16, 2026

GLAMDRING: Gait Learning And Morphology co-Design via Reinforcement LearnING of CPGs

Amogh Joshi, Kaushik RoyPreprint 2026Sep 16, 2026

Space × Robotics × AIPLANETARY ROBOTICS Learning-based Methods Surface Mobility & Terramechanics

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Sep 16, 2026

Artificial Intelligence-Enabled Space Robot Operations: Technologies, Challenges and Prospects

Zeyuan Huang, Gang Chen, Zixuan Hao, Guoqin Tang +6 morePreprint 2026Sep 15, 2026

Space × Robotics × AISimulation, Digital Twins & Benchmarks Manipulation & Grasping Perception & State Estimation

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Sep 15, 2026

Fleet-To-Lab: A Transfer Learning Framework For Lunar Rover Slippage Estimation Via Model Fusion

Riccardo Viviano, Saki Omi, Andrej Orsula, Miguel Olivares-MendeziSpaRo 2026Sep 15, 2026

Space × Robotics × AIPLANETARY ROBOTICS Surface Mobility & Terramechanics Learning-based Methods Multi-Robot & Swarms

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Sep 15, 2026

Results of Lunar PlanetVacTM, a pneumatic regolith sampling system deployed to the moon on Blue Ghost Mission 1

Kris A. Zacny, Zak Fitzgerald, Vincent Vendiola, Krystine Carrington +35 moreSpace and Planetary Resources 2026Sep 15, 2026

Space × RoboticsISRU & CONSTRUCTION PLANETARY ROBOTICS Manipulation & Grasping MMX

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Sep 15, 2026