Starling Autonomous Spacecraft Swarm
NASA’s Starling is an active four-spacecraft swarm of 6U CubeSats launched on July 17, 2023 to demonstrate autonomous formation flight, inter-spacecraft networking, relative navigation, and distributed science operations in low Earth orbit. The mission advances cooperative spacecraft architectures for future science and exploration.
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Identity
- Family Name
- Starling
- Full Name
- Starling Autonomous Spacecraft Swarm
- Roles
- technology_demonstratorresearch
- Status
- active
- Type
- spacecraft
Details
- Description
- NASA’s Starling is an active four-spacecraft swarm of 6U CubeSats launched on July 17, 2023 to demonstrate autonomous formation flight, inter-spacecraft networking, relative navigation, and distributed science operations in low Earth orbit. The mission advances cooperative spacecraft architectures for future science and exploration.
- First Flight Year
- 2,023
Links
- Official Url
- https://www.nasa.gov/mission/starling/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- August 13, 2026 at 03:17:14 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 13, 2026 at 03:17:14 UTC