Vega’s fuel-free CubeSats to keep formation with wings

Vega’s fuel-free CubeSats to keep formation with wings

Enabling & Support 27/09/2023 2786 views 75 likes Spain’s trio of ANSER CubeSats, due to fly on Europe’s next Vega launcher, will fly like a flock of birds in orbit – in more ways than one. Keeping in formation by following their leader, the three shoebox-sized...
Let the Robot Take the Wheel. Autonomous Navigation in Space

Let the Robot Take the Wheel. Autonomous Navigation in Space

Tracking spacecraft as they traverse deep space isn’t easy. So far, it’s been done manually, with operators of NASA’s Deep Space Network, one of the most capable communication arrays for contacting probes on interplanetary journeys, checking data from each spacecraft...