Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Space Technology 6 (ST-6) is part of the NASA New Millennium Program. ST-6 is a subsystem technology demonstration that consisted of 2 separate projects, the Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment on-board the Earth Observing 1 satellite and the Inertial Stellar Compass (ISC) experimen ...Full description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Space Technology 6 (ST-6) is part of the NASA New Millennium Program. ST-6 is a subsystem technology demonstration that consisted of 2 separate projects, the Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment on-board the Earth Observing 1 satellite and the Inertial Stellar Compass (ISC) experiment aboard TacSat-2. The Autonomous Sciencecraft Experiment (ASE) is a software experiment that has been operating on-board the Earth Observing-1 mission since 2003. The ASE software uses onboard continuous planning, robust task and goal-based execution, and onboard machine learning and pattern recognition to radically increase science return by enabling intelligent downlink selection and autonomous retargeting. This software demonstrates the potential for space missions to use onboard decision-making to detect, analyze, and respond to science events, and to downlink only the highest value science data.