Astronaut Andreas Mogensen shows off a pair of Astrobee robotic free flyers with the Obruta software. Image credit: NASA JSC.

Obruta, along with their partners, has successfully concluded their autonomous spacecraft mission aboard the International Space Station. 

This was the culmination of “17 months of rigorous testing,” the announcement said, focused on giving spacecraft the ability to autonomously dock with each other using normal monocular computer vision augmented by AI. 


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Craig started writing for SpaceQ in 2017 as their space culture reporter, shifting to Canadian business and startup reporting in 2019. He is a member of the Canadian Association of Journalists, and has a Master's Degree in International Security from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. He lives in Toronto.