swarms in space...

[Ken Gosier]

Just in case people hadn't seen this: There's a team at
NASA-Goddard working on an advanced mission design, which
would use a large group of small spacecraft to explore the
asteroid belt:

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/space_ants_001227.html

The talk in the article seems very much like CAS talk; they
speak of the 'emergent' behavior, for a similar project at
JPL near the bottom of the article.

My apologies if this stuff is already well known to everyone--

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