NASA is preparing to launch Starling, its first satellite swarm. Instead of communicating directly with the four Starling cubesats, mission operators will send instructions to the swarm as a single ...

After 10 months in orbit, the Starling spacecraft swarm successfully demonstrated its primary mission's key objectives, representing significant achievements in the capability of swarm configurations.

In its latest milestone, NASA’s Starling 1.5+ mission proved that a swarm of small satellites can work together autonomously detecting events, sharing data, and adjusting their orbits on their own, ...

Astronauts living and working on the moon and Mars will rely on satellites to provide services like navigation, weather, and communications relays. While managing complex missions, automating ...

NASA calls it Starling, and, just like its almost-namesake Starlink, it is a satellite swarm. The space agency launched it into orbit in the summer of last year, and since then it has been busy ...

A large swarm of European Starlings banded together to create a murmuration in Murray, Utah. These birds have been sighted in Utah several times this winter. Starlings create these flocks to protect ...