{"id":83424,"date":"2012-03-08T17:15:58","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T09:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/darpa-to-host-iss-small-satellite-development-challenge-march-28\/"},"modified":"2012-03-08T17:15:58","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T09:15:58","slug":"darpa-to-host-iss-small-satellite-development-challenge-march-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/darpa-to-host-iss-small-satellite-development-challenge-march-28\/","title":{"rendered":"DARPA to Host ISS Small Satellite Development Challenge March 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[03-08-12] The <b>U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) <\/b>will commence a competition March 28 for teams or individuals looking to develop unique algorithms to control small satellites on-board the International Space Station (ISS), the agency announced March 7.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;DARPA\u2019s Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge calls for programmers from around the world to develop a fuel-optimal control algorithm that must enable a satellite to capture a space object that\u2019s tumbling, spinning or moving in the opposite direction, according to the agency\u2019s guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;Participants will collaborate via the Zero Robotics Website during four, week-long computer-based challenge rounds to create a computer algorithm that will be programmed into small-sized satellites called Synchronized Position, Hold, Engage, and Reorient Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) aboard the ISS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-08-12] The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will commence a competition March 28 for teams or individuals looking to develop unique algorithms to control small satellites on-board the International Space Station (ISS), the agency announced March 7. &nbsp; &nbsp;DARPA\u2019s Zero Robotics Autonomous Space Capture Challenge calls for programmers from around the world to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}