NASA's Swarm Missions: The Challenge of Building Autonomous Software

  • Authors:
  • Walt Truszkowski;Mike Hinchey;James Rash;Christopher Rouff

  • Affiliations:
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center;NASA Goddard Space Flight Center;NASA Goddard Space Flight Center;Advanced Concepts Business Unit at SAIC

  • Venue:
  • IT Professional
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

In future space missions, thousands of tiny spacecraft will cooperate to explore the solarsystem. Providing the required autonomy will take systems and software where no one has gonebefore.