Navigation trades while in pursuit of a rendezvous with a sample capsule in orbit around Mars are described. The rendezvous operation is described in terms of far-field and near-field detection. Passive optical detection is compared with active capsule detection using a radio beacon. Passive methods are, to first order, unconstrained by time while a radio beacon link is time-limited. A possible activity to make use of orbiter plume interactions is explored.
Mars Sample Return orbital rendezvous detection methods
2019-01-13
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Mars Sample Return Orbital Rendezvous Detection Methods
TIBKAT | 2019
|Mars sample return by orbital rendezvous
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