The National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) performed unmanned autonomous rendezvous docking (RVD) experiments using the Engineering Test Satellite VII (ETS-VII) in 1998 and 1999. In these experiments, a rendezvous laser radar (RVR) was used as the primary navigation sensor during the final approach phase (relative distances from 500 m to 2 m). The RVR functioned properly, and its characteristics, which are measurement accuracy, optical propagation, and acquisition/tracking, satisfied the requirements. The experimental results show that RVR is effective for autonomous rendezvous docking.


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    Title :

    In-orbit demonstration of rendezvous laser radar for unmanned autonomous rendezvous docking


    Contributors:
    Mokuno, M. (author) / Kawano, I. (author) / Suzuki, T. (author)


    Publication date :

    2004-04-01


    Size :

    1549944 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English