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DARPA Fractionated Spacecraft Program Starts

Posted by Zonk on from the better-them-than-us dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Start buying Cold War nuclear shelters and piling up the canned food, because Boeing Advanced Systems has started System F6: 'DARPA's Future, Fast, Flexible, Fractionated, Free-Flying Spacecraft United by Information Exchange space technology program.' In other words: multiple, networked specialized spacecraft swarms that are intelligent enough to perform a single coordinated task together, like analyzing the crops or deciding to destroy humanity, Skynet-style. Actually, it could completely change satellites for the better, according to some experts."

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  1. Olds, not news by arth1 · · Score: -1, Troll

    NASA already have showed us that they master fractionating space planes. Challenger and Columbia, for example, both fractionated quite spectacularly.