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[Satellite TODAY 03-08-12] The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will commence a competition March 28 for teams or individuals looking to develop unique algorithms to control small satellites on-board the International Space Station (ISS), the agency announced March 7.
DARPA’s Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge calls for programmers from around the world to develop a fuel-optimal control algorithm that must enable a satellite to capture a space object that’s tumbling, spinning or moving in the opposite direction, according to the agency’s guidelines.
Participants will collaborate via the Zero Robotics Website during four, week-long computer-based challenge rounds to create a computer algorithm that will be programmed into small-sized satellites called Synchronized Position, Hold, Engage, and Reorient Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) aboard the ISS.
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