Autonomous spacecraft

Operating without a human in the loop, because the loop is too slow.

Scope

• Why autonomy: light-time delay and contact windows
• Levels of autonomy and their verification burden
• Onboard planning and execution
• Autonomous fault management
• Flight-proven autonomy systems

Notes

Nothing written here yet. Working notes go in Research and Learning Lab; anything that becomes durable is promoted onto this page.

References

To be added as the topic is worked through.