NASA plans to test satellites flying in passive safety ellipses in low Earth orbit.
Credit: NASA
NASA is seeking ways for satellites to cooperate autonomously—without real-time commands from mission control on Earth—to enhance scientific data collection on deep-space missions and pave the way for orbiting spacecraft to avoid collisions automatically. In pursuit of this, the agency in mid-July...
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