Datasets / Femto-satellite Swarm State and Density Estimation Project


Femto-satellite Swarm State and Density Estimation Project

Published By National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Issued over 9 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a single dataset

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

NASA is planning future missions involving fleets of small satellites in LEO and GEO that can exhibit autonomous collective behavior. Such a "swarm of femto-satellites" can complete complex tasks that are difficult or impossible for large single satellites to achieve.