JPL has developed a small(<5 kg) spacecraft capable of visual inspection of a host vehicle with support from NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD). This paper describes the multi-mission utility of the Micro-Inspector and presents an overview of the spacecraft system and subsystem designs, description of a typical inspection mission scenario, and initial hardware demonstrations of key subsystems, partially integrated with each other in a Micro-Inspector testbed at JPL.


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    Title :

    Micro-Inspector Spacecraft: An Overview


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    20th Annual AIAA/USU Conference on Small Satellites ; 2006 ; Logan, UT, United States


    Publication date :

    2006-08-15


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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