The purpose of NASA's New Millennium Program (NMP) is to validate advanced technologies in space and thus lower the risk for the first mission user. The focus of NMP is only on those technologies which need space environment for proper validation. The ST6 project has developed two advanced, experimental technologies for use on spacecraft of the future. These technologies are the Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment and the Inertial Stellar Compass. These technologies will improve spacecraft's ability to: make decisions on what information to gather and send back to the ground, determine its own attitude and adjust its pointing.


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    Title :

    New millennium program ST6: autonomous technologies for future NASA spacecraft


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Government Microcircuit Applications and Critical Technology Conference, GOMACTech ; 2005 ; Las Vegas, NV, United States


    Publication date :

    2005-04-04


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English