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Swarm Technologies' SpaceBEEs 168 through 179 were deployed using an EXOpod Nova deployer on Transporter-8.
Rajant Kinetic Mesh BreadCrumb radio nodes have been used in large drone swarm formations in DARPA’s OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program.
NASA signed a contract with Rocket Lab to launch a constellation of four cubesats called Starling to test autonomous swarm technologies in low Earth orbit.
SpaceX is pursuing the small-satellite IoT opportunity via the seven-year-old U.S. venture Swarm, which SpaceX bought in 2021.
SpaceX acquired Swarm in 2021.
SpaceX acquired small satellite operator Swarm Technologies in 2022 and intends to build on that acquisition for mobile services and IoT connectivity.
Swarm Technologies was co-founded by Sara Spangelo, who is now a SpaceX senior director of satellite engineering and is helping lead SpaceX’s direct-to-smartphone expansion.
The Starling mission will complete a six-month series of experiments to demonstrate swarm communications, navigation, and autonomy.
The Swarm mission comprises three identical 468-kilogram satellites in near-polar orbit and has operated since 2013.
Electron will deploy 34 payloads from Alba Orbital, Astrix Astronautics, Aurora Propulsion Technologies, E-Space, Unseenlabs, and Swarm Technologies via global launch services provider Spaceflight Inc.
Astra’s Rocket 3.3 launched from Kodiak Island, Alaska on 2022-03-15 and placed 16 Swarm satellites into orbit.
Swarm’s planned launches will reduce latencies for locations poleward of 30 degrees latitude to less than 30 minutes by August.
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 its internet-of-things tracking services to less than one hour at the 90th percentile by June.
The exercise utilized integrated swarm technology developed by a Raytheon BBN-led team.
The team is contracted by DARPA to demonstrate swarm capabilities during the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment 2022.
Raytheon Intelligence & Space supported the fifth OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics DARPA program field exercise.
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 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.