Samantha Cristoforetti conducts a test run for SPHERES (IMAGE)

NASA/Johnson Space Center

Samantha Cristoforetti conducts a test run for SPHERES

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ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti conducts a test run for SPHERES during her previous mission to the space station in 2014. For that investigation, students wrote software to direct multiple free-flying satellites in creating 3D models of a target object.

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NASA

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