Abstract The continuing Machine Learning (ML) revolution indubitably has had a significant
positive impact on the analysis of downlinked satellite data. Other aspects of the Earth …

NASA's Perseverance rover uses robotic autonomy to achieve its mission goals on Mars. Its
self-driving autonomous navigation system (AutoNav) has been used to evaluate 88% of the …

Autonomous systems will play an essential role in many applications across diverse
domains including space, marine, air, field, road, and service robotics. They will assist us in …

Earth Observation (EO) spacecraft plays a pivotal role in various critical applications
impacting life on Earth. Historically, these systems have adhered to conventional operational …

EARTH-CENTRIC spacecraft have been designed for decades as monolithic systems, which
are highly integrated systems conceived to fulfill a set of goals satisfying certain user needs …

OPS-SAT is a 3U CubeSat launched on December 18, 2019, it is the first nanosatellite to be
directly owned and operated by the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft is a …

The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in small satellite missions for commercial,
public, and government intelligence applications. Given the rapid commercialization of …

Future space missions will process and analyze imagery on board as well as plan and act
more autonomously, placing greater demands on flight computing. Traditional flight …

Background Mortality selection occurs when a non-random subset of a population of interest
has died before data collection and is unobserved in the data. Mortality selection is of …

A 1U CubeSat has severe limitations on size, power and downlink capabilities. Transferring
images taken by imaging payload from orbit can be a challenging. To save time and effort in …