{"id":195115,"date":"2024-08-24T15:22:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T20:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/starfox-autonomous-satellite-swarm-could-level-up-space-exploration"},"modified":"2024-08-24T15:22:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T20:22:28","slug":"starfox-autonomous-satellite-swarm-could-level-up-space-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/starfox-autonomous-satellite-swarm-could-level-up-space-exploration","title":{"rendered":"StarFOX autonomous satellite swarm could level up space exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/starfox-autonomous-satellite-swarm-could-level-up-space-exploration3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are trying to build a new sort of satellite, and have recently tested their idea with the Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment, or \u201cStarFOX.\u201d You may be getting flashbacks to the retro <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Fox\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Fox\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">Star Fox video game<\/a> series \u2014 and you\u2019d be right to imagine this experiment as a science fiction fantasy brought into reality. There are no space-faring animals here, though.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, StarFOX is a quartet of small satellites that work in tandem \u2014 a satellite \u201cswarm,\u201d as it\u2019s sometimes called. This concept isn\u2019t entirely new, but there\u2019s something that sets StarFOX apart from standard satellite swarms. Typically, these conglomerates need external help in terms of orientation \u2014 but StarFOX\u2019s four satellites can gauge their own positions with onboard cameras, an ability that could allow them to operate autonomously well beyond Earth orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are trying to build a new sort of satellite, and have recently tested their idea with the Starling Formation-Flying Optical Experiment, or \u201cStarFOX.\u201d You may be getting flashbacks to the retro Star Fox video game series \u2014 and you\u2019d be right to imagine this experiment as a science fiction fantasy brought into reality. There [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}