Swarm’s planned launches will reduce latencies for its internet-of-things tracking services to less than one hour at the 90th percentile by June.
Astra’s Rocket 3.3 launched from Kodiak Island, Alaska on 2022-03-15 and placed 16 Swarm satellites into orbit.
Swarm’s newsletter stated that the company recently launched 16 new VHF satellites into a 5:30 a.m. LTDN orbit.
Swarm’s planned launches will reduce latencies for locations poleward of 30 degrees latitude to less than 30 minutes by August.
The swarm autonomy enabled a single or small group of operators to manage a large swarm of autonomous air and ground vehicles with minimal training.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space supported the fifth OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics DARPA program field exercise.
The exercise utilized integrated swarm technology developed by a Raytheon BBN-led team.
A single operator successfully controlled a swarm composed of 130 physical drone platforms and 30 simulated drone platforms during the exercise.
The team is contracted by DARPA to demonstrate swarm capabilities during the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment 2022.
Raytheon BBN developed a virtual reality interface to manage human swarm interactions and provide an interactive view of the environment.
The team employed a combination of commercial off-the-shelf and custom-built hardware and software to deliver swarm autonomy.
Lucy will fly by five Trojans in the leading swarm between August 2027 and November 2028.
Lucy will perform an additional Earth flyby in December 2030 before flying by two asteroids in the trailing Trojan swarm in March 2033.
Swarm’s last announced funding round was a Series A in early 2019 that raised $25,000,000.
The companies signed the merger deal on 2021-07-16 under which Swarm would continue to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of SpaceX.
Swarm had raised a total of $35,000,000 and had about 30 employees as of a March webinar hosted by Caltech’s Keck Institute for Space Studies.
Orbit Logic was awarded a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract from NASA to develop the On-board Swarm Control for Autonomy and Responsiveness (OSCAR) solution.
CesiumAstro manufactured and shipped a compact inter-satellite link communication system to NASA’s Ames Research Center to test mobile networking technologies within swarm missions.
CesiumAstro manufactured and shipped a communications system to NASA’s Glenn Research Center for use in cognitive communications research supporting autonomy for swarm missions and future lunar architecture deployment.
CesiumAstro manufactured and shipped a communications system to NASA’s Glenn Research Center for use in cognitive communications research supporting autonomy for swarm missions and future lunar architecture deployment.