Space Stations

Free-flying Astrobee Robotic Assistants Inside ISS

By Keith Cowing

Press Release

February 10, 2022

Filed under International Space Station, ISS, NASA

Free-flying Astrobee Robotic Assistants Inside ISS — Astrobee Robotic Assistants

NASA

A pair of free-flying Astrobee robotic assistants test automated rendezvous maneuvers using an algorithm for the ROAM, or Relative Operations for Autonomous Maneuvers, technology demonstration inside the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module.
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Keith Cowing

SpaceRef co-founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber.

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