Serves as a national test bed to support research in the emerging field of space robotics including autonomous rendezvous and capture, remote assembly operations, and machine learning.
- Dual six degrees-of-freedom precision platforms
- Full three dimensional simulation of spacecraft autonomous rendezvous and docking under realistic dynamic conditions
- In-the-loop test of critical flight components, sensors, coupling mechanisms, and terminal-phase software
- National testbed for space robotic systems
- Autonomous rendezvous and docking
- On-orbit robotic assembly
- Machine learning systems
- Support to Defense Advanced Research Project Agency
- Space robotic demonstration
- Advanced concepts