NASA Sending Four Starling Cubesats to Test Cooperation Without Realtime Mission Control
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6CZ9B)
This July, NASA is sending a team of four six-unit (6U)-sized CubeSats into orbit around Earth to test cooperation without real-time updates from mission control. While that kind of autonomous cooperation may not sound too difficult for humans, this team will be robotic - composed of small satellites to test out key technologies for the ...