Abstract Milani is a 6U CubeSat that will be released in the Didymos binary asteroid system by ESA’s Hera spacecraft. Its objectives are to study and characterize the system’s asteroids, thus demonstrating the use of miniaturized technologies for asteroid science. Milani adopts sophisticated vision-based technologies for the guidance, navigation, and control system in the asteroid’s close-proximity environment. This work elaborates on the architecture design and on the performance analysis of the image processing and the guidance, navigation, and control system of Milani, showing that they can successfully assure adequate pointing and control of the CubeSat in the Didymos environment.

    Highlights Design of vision-based guidance, navigation, and control system for CubeSats. Demonstration of miniaturized technologies in deep-space for binary asteroid missions. Design of semi-autonomous image processing and navigation algorithms.


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    Title :

    The vision-based guidance, navigation, and control system of Hera’s Milani CubeSat


    Contributors:
    Pugliatti, M. (author) / Piccolo, F. (author) / Rizza, A. (author) / Franzese, V. (author) / Topputo, F. (author)

    Published in:

    Acta Astronautica ; 210 ; 14-28


    Publication date :

    2023-04-25


    Size :

    15 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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