Tag Archives: DARPA

Successful Fourth Deployment Results in Airborne Recovery of Gremlins Air Vehicle to C-130. An unmanned air vehicle demonstrated successful airborne recovery during the DARPA Gremlins program’s latest flight test deployment last month. During the deployment, two X-61 Gremlin Air Vehicles (GAV) successfully validated all autonomous formation flying positions and safety features before one GAV ultimately demonstrated airborne recovery to a ...

Led by NASA JPL, Team CoSTAR will participate in the SubT final this week to demonstrate multi-robot autonomy in a series of tests in extreme environments. Eight teams featuring dozens of robots from more than 30 institutions, including NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, will converge in a former Kentucky limestone mine from Sept. 21 to 24 to participate ...

Experimental Spaceplane, formerly XS-1, is one of a number of ongoing DARPA programs related to launch and other space technologies. (credit: DARPA) by Jeff Foust Last week, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency celebrated its 60th anniversary with a conference, D60, held just outside Washington. It was an opportunity for past and current DARPA, as well as those who have ...

DARPA had been working with Space Systems Loral on the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites program to develop a satellite servicing system, but the company dropped out of the program last week. (credit: DARPA) by Jeff Foust In the last few years the idea of satellite servicing has gained interest in the space industry. Part of it has been driven ...