DART to perform first fully autonomous on-orbit rendezvous

With its Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART) program, Orbital Sciences Corp. hopes to accomplish a first in space flight - a purely autonomous on-orbit rendezvous between two spacecraft. Under contract to NASA's Space Launch Initiative (SLI), DART could eventually enable...

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