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Test session 18, SPHERES testbed experiments on board the ISS.
Formation flight - Spiral maneuvers.
The SPHERES testbed designed and operated by Space Systems Laboratory at MIT.
More info: http://ssl.mit.edu/spheres

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  • The astronauts passing by in the back are so funny. If I'd be on the ISS I'd always fly like superman: With a red cape on and one fist pointed to my estimated destination.

  • Well, let's see. Autonomous navigation in 3 dimensions, mobility and control in a gravity free environment, testbed for space-based robotics. Sorry it's not cutting edge enough for you. We go to space because it pushes our technolgies and boundaries forward. You crawl before you walk, walk before you run. That's why the ISS is there, and why robot spheres are flying around there. 100 years ago we were barely flying. Imagine where we can go in the next 100.

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  • HA! HA! HA! HA!!! THOSE ASTRONAUTS ARE SUPER FUNNY!!!

  • you are right no new tech its a rumba with a fan. replace that fan with a internal gyro and weights system to move in free space and not push around air and youll get my attention.

  • Check out the guy zooming past at 0:30.

  • Somebody open a window, the stench of Randroid droppings is thick in the air today!

  • If you make an assertion, you should back it up. Otherwise, reasonable people are correct to ignore it. Absence of evidence may not be evidence of absence, but neither is it evidence of existence. Put up or shut up.

  • Why should I spend the time and effort provide examples of commonplace techniques? Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Your demand for citations is not a refutation of my remark, but merely a commonplace troll diversion tactic.

  • I am on the topic at hand. If there is nothing original here, then you should be able to readily provide specific examples of other projects that have done this before. So far you haven't.

  • Correct, there is no existing state of the art outside of school science projects that no honest person can afford.

    Getting back to the topic at hand: there is nothing original here.

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