The present invention relates to an aerospace vehicle navigation and control system comprising a terrestrial illumination matching module for determining spacecraft position and attitude. The method permits aerospace vehicle position and attitude determinations using terrestrial lights using an Earth-pointing camera without the need of a dedicated sensor to track stars, the sun, or the horizon. Thus, a module for making such determinations can easily and inexpensively be made onboard an aerospace vehicle if an Earth-pointing sensor, such as a camera, is present.
Aerospace Vehicle Navigation and Control System Comprising Terrestrial Illumination Matching Module for Determining Aerospace Vehicle Position and Attitude
2021-07-08
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
European Patent Office | 2024
|Aerospace Vehicle Navigation Systems
NTIS | 1967
|Unmanned Aerospace Vehicle Navigation
Wiley | 2016
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