Flight Software for Distributed Adaptive Navigation and Control

OSAM missions to-date require multi-year development timelines and high NRE costs, particularly in the implementation and testing of mission-specific Rendezvous Proximity Operations and Docking (RPOD) flight software (FSW). The cost of developing complex RPOD software for each use case drives organizations to rely on proprietary heritage designs, which results in a steep barrier to entry for novel advanced algorithms coming out of research institutions. Ten One Aerospace has developed a modular, app-based RPOD FSW and simulation architecture to enable rapid prototyping and implementation of mission-specific FSW and both reduce NRE development cost and eliminate the barrier to entry for novel advanced algorithms. This Phase I effort will demonstrate the feasibility of using the Ten One Aerospace robust and flexible software simulation architecture to integrate and test novel multi-agent navigation, characterization, and passively safe guidance algorithms developed by the Stanford University Space Rendezvous Lab. These algorithms use cutting-edge distributed processing techniques to divide the computational burden across multiple agents to increase resilience, robustness, and performance across the spacecraft formation. Design Reference Missions will be defined to explore the breadth of the OSAM market space while considering dual-use applications, informed by teammate Orbit Fab’s immediate commercial need and unique industry position.