Overview

Inspector spacecraft, like NASA’s Seeker, are designed to conduct low-cost in-space inspections of other ships. Inspector spacecraft have limited computing resources, but complex computing demands.

In this challenge, solvers will help NASA develop algorithms that could be run on inspector (chaser) spacecraft. There are two tracks, with different associated prizes. In the Detection Track, solvers develop object detection solutions that identify the boundaries of spacecraft in an image. In the Pose Estimation Track, solvers develop solutions that identify changes in the position and orientation (pose) of the chaser spacecraft camera across a sequence of images.