After 10 months in orbit, the Starling spacecraft swarm successfully demonstrated its primary mission's key objectives, representing significant achievements in the capability of swarm configurations.

NASA has demonstrated a new way for satellites to navigate without GPS by using the objects around them as landmarks in space ...

NASA calls it Starling, and, just like its almost-namesake Starlink, it is a satellite swarm. The space agency launched it into orbit in the summer of last year, and since then it has been busy ...

Could autonomous CubeSats someday be used for deep space exploration? This is what a recent demonstration by SpaceX’s Starling swarm of four CubeSats hopes to address as NASA announced the 10-month ...

In its latest milestone, NASA’s Starling 1.5+ mission proved that a swarm of small satellites can work together autonomously detecting events, sharing data, and adjusting their orbits on their own, ...

Astronauts living and working on the moon and Mars will rely on satellites to provide services like navigation, weather, and communications relays. While managing complex missions, automating ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The army of Earth’s orbiting satellites continues to swell, but the latest batch from NASA will have a leg up on the others. They ...

Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”), a global leader in launch services and space systems, today announced it has signed a deal to launch NASA’s Starling mission, a ...

We take GPS for granted every day. Whether you’re trying to find the nearest coffee shop or navigating a cross-country road trip, those handy satellites in Earth’s orbit have your back. But what ...