From the beginning of the Space Age, imagery, particularly motion imagery, has been a part of crewed and un-crewed missions. As technologies have evolved the imagery gets better, more compelling, and more useful for operations and monitoring of systems, crew, and spacecraft. As we look forward now to crewed missions beyond low-Earth orbit, such as the Lunar Orbiting Platform-Gateway being considered as a pre-cursor to future crewed Mars missions, there are both opportunities and challenges in implementing a multi-faceted imaging system that advances mission capabilities and technology. This paper will present a vision for an imaging system that is relevant for operations of the ISS and future crewed missions in deep space, with a detailed look at some of the key innovative technologies required to enable such a system. Specific enabling technologies included are: Innovative camera systems capable of providing a 360deg field-of-view without moving parts; Ultra-high Definition (or higher) resolution; High Efficiency Video Coding compression; Compatibility with Delay Tolerant Network protocols; and Intelligent systems capable of monitoring the field-of-view for un-crewed missions. Opportunities where Standardization can enable interoperability are also identified.


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    Title :

    Enabling Technologies for Deep Space Imaging


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps 2018) ; 2018 ; Marseille, France


    Publication date :

    2018-05-28


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English