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A NASA Ames ASTROBEE Robotic Free-flyer on-board the International Space Station, wearing the NPS Spacecraft Robotics Lab `skin', during the first session of the ASTROBATICS experimental campaign in March 2021 (PIs: Prof. Marcello Romano, Prof. Jennifer Hudson)

For more info:

Kwok-Choon, S.T., L. Romano, M., Hudson, J.,
Orbital Hopping Maneuvers with Astrobee on-board the International Space Station,
Acta Astronautica, Volume 207, June 2023, pp. 62-76, DOI

Kwok-Choon, S.T., Hudson, J., L. Romano, M.,
Orbital Hopping Maneuvers with Two Astrobee Free-Flyers: Ground and Flight Experiments,
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Volume9, 2022. DOI

The Spacecraft Floating Spacecraft Simulators test-bed at the NPS Spacecraft Robotics Laboratory.

The test bed is used for laboratory Hardware-in-the-loop testing of dynamics model and Real-time GN&C Algorithms for Spacecraft Proximity and Orbital Robotics Maneuvering.

For more info:
Zappulla II, R., Virgili-Llop, J., Zagaris, C., Park, H., Romano, M.,
Dynamic Air-Bearing Hardware-in-the-Loop Testbed to Experimentally Evaluate Autonomous Spacecraft Proximity Maneuvers, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 54, Issue 4, April 2017, pp. 825-839. DOI