🚀 First demonstration of learning-accelerated trajectory optimization in space!... Our team used a neural network to warm-start trajectory optimization for the NASA's Astrobee free-flying robot on-board the International Space Station, cutting solver iterations by up to 60% while maintaining safety constraints. 🎥 Video: 📄 Paper: 📅 Submitted to iSpaRo 2025 With Somrita Banerjee and Abhishek Cauligishow more

First Polish European Space Agency project astronaut launches to... the International International Space Station 🧑‍🚀🚀 #Ax4 with Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, marking a historic moment for Poland and Europe in space. Go #Ignis! 🔥Next stop: Orbit. Polska Agencja Kosmiczna Ministerstwo Rozwoju i Technologii Axiom Spaceshow more

Spacecraft separation confirmed 🚀 Flying free in their SpaceX... Dragon spacecraft, the crew of #Ax4 are one step closer on their journey to the International Space Station.show more

International Space Station SpaceX Implantable nerve devices and bioprinted... tissues are some of the science going up to the International Space Station with this launch. Read more about the rest:show more

All systems are looking good and weather is exceptional... for tonight's Falcon 9 launch of NASA's Crew-10 to the International Space Station →show more

Last week we wrapped up our training at SpaceX... - Crew-12 is certified for flight and ready to go to the International Space Station! We’ve now entered quarantine and are prepping our families and logistics. We’re L-13 days from launch at the NASA's Kennedy Space Center! It has truly been an honor to work with this team - I love it when a plan comes together! Photos courtesy of SpaceXshow more

Rocket launch plumes in Unreal 5.8. I'm going with... a space exploration theme to test out the improved Niagara optimizationshow more

Starliner to the stars! ✨ At 10:52am ET, Boeing... Space #Starliner lifted off on a ULA Atlas V for the first time with ARCHIVED NASA Astronauts aboard. This Crew Flight Test aims to certify the spacecraft for routine space travel to and from the International Space Station.show more

VIDEO | Axiom Mission 4 to the International Space... Station, carrying India's Shubhanshu Shukla and three other astronauts, lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US. #AxiomMission4 #axiom4mission (Source: Third Party) (Full video available on PTI Videos -show more

🚀 Excited to share our #ICLR2025 work on planning... with neural dynamics models! While our lab has developed diverse neural dynamics models for manipulating rigid, deformable, and granular objects, having the model alone doesn’t solve the problem—planning with it remains a challenge. 💡 Enter BaB-ND, led by Keyi and Jiangwei! We propose a scalable, GPU-accelerated branch-and-bound algorithm, inspired by neural network verification, to enable effective planning for diverse objects modeled with neural dynamics. 🔗 Project page (open-source + detailed docs!): 🎥 Watch the video to see T being pushed around obstacles, and check out Keyi’s thread for more details!show more

UK scientists are sending microscopic worms to the International... Space Station that could help unlock the future of human space travel. 🪱 The experiment will study how biological organisms respond to microgravity and radiation - critical knowledge ahead of NASA's Artemis missions. 🌗show more

How robust can model predictive control be if we... can solve each trajectory optimization to global optimality? On the contact-rich push-T problem, we show that model-based global optimization is so robust that it never fails, even if the model is not even correct! We achieve global optimality via sparse Moment and SOS relaxations. -- Yes, we managed to solve SDPs online on a robot. Amazing work by Shucheng Kang and Guorui Liu.show more

Dragon docked to the International Space Station

International Space Station SpaceX With over 5,000 pounds (2,300... kg) of cargo, SpaceX’s 33rd commercial resupply mission is on its way to the International Space Station. It is scheduled to arrive on Aug. 25 around 7:30am ET (1130 UTC).show more

Our recent news made it to the #nyse trading... floor while Times Square visitors got a preview of Haven-1, scheduled to launch in 2027 and become the world’s first commercial space station.show more

🚀 TRANSMISSION INCOMING...we’ve joined forces with NASA for the... first-ever Twitch stream from space. 🌌 Tune in Feb. 12 @ 11:45 AM EST to chat with astronauts, Don Pettit LIVE from the International Space Station and Matt Dominick, freshly back from orbit! Don't miss liftoffshow more

Haven't been to a conference in a while, really... excited to be at #NeurIPS2024! I'll be helping present 4 of our group's recent papers: 1. Overcoming the Sim-to-Real Gap: Leveraging Simulation to Learn to Explore for Real-World RL 2. Distributional Successor Features Enable Zero-Shot Policy Optimization 3. Learning to Cooperate with Humans using Generative Agents 4. Personalizing Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback with Variational Preference Learning Find more details on each paper and where to find us in this thread (1/6)show more

🚨 The International Space Station filmed by Dragon. Who... knows what to believe?show more

📍Long Beach, California Thanks for having me @Vast! Looking... forward to seeing your amazing team launch the world’s first commercial space station. 🚀show more