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By Karl B. HilleNASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center GREENBELT, Md. — Swarms of small satellites could communicate amongst themselves to collect data on important weather patterns at different times of the day or year, and from multiple angles. Such swarms, using machine learning algorithms, could revolutionize scientists’ understanding of weather and climate changes. Engineer Sabrina Thompson is working on software to enable small spacecraft, or SmallSats, to communicate with each […]https://parabolicarc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/satellites_different_orbits_study_same_area.jpg