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NASA Demonstrates GPS-Free Autonomous Spacecraft Navigation System on Starling Swarm

Submit on Tuesday, August 18th, 2026 07:39

On August 17, 2026, NASA announced the successful flight demonstration of the Fast Autonomous Lost-in-space Catalog-based Optical Navigation (FALCON) system aboard the agency’s Starling CubeSat mission in low Earth orbit. […]

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