The register

First fully distributed autonomous operation of several spacecraft

Who claims it, in their own words, and what else was read.

Claimed for after July 2023

1. “The accomplishments of DSA onboard Starling include the first fully distributed autonomous operation of multiple spacecraft, the first use of space-to-space communications to autonomously share status information between multiple spacecraft”

   NASA: the developer. Published undated. Distributed Spacecraft Autonomy on the Starling swarm

Unchecked. Recorded as made. No earlier claim was found, and none was searched for.

Recorded as made. Classical autonomy, not a learned model.

What a status means

• stands as worded Nothing read contradicts the claim in the scope its maker gave it.
• contradicted An earlier dated source, read here, reports the same thing.
• contested Another source, read here, reports something that may be earlier or the same. Which is right turns on a definition or on a fact not stated.
• unchecked Recorded as made. No earlier claim was found, and none was searched for.
• out of scope The claim is true or false of something that did not run in space.

Every first claimed