As part of a NASA Tipping Point Partnership with Blue Origin to mature precision lunar landing technologies, two test flights of the Blue Origin New Shepard vehicle carrying a NASA-developed sensor suite were conducted on 10/13/2020 and 08/26/2021 at the West Texas Launch Site (LS-1). Part of the acquired datasets, comprising data from an inertial measurement unit and a downward facing camera, was postprocessed through a JPL-developed prototype Visual Odometry and Map Relative Localization software (TRNVOSIM), and compared against ground truth acquired by the host vehicle navigation system. In this paper, we provide a description of the algorithms, the test setup, and the processed results.
Performance Analysis of Terrain Relative Navigation Using Blue Origin New Shepard Suborbital Flight Telemetry
03.01.2022
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Suborbital Flight Test of a Prototype Terrain-Relative Navigation System AIAA Paper
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