We present a collection of techniques designed for mitigating limited pointing stability for target acquisition, onboard image calibration and decision making, in a low bandwidth environment. These technologies will fly on the Near Earth Asteroid Scout (NEA Scout) interplanetary CubeSat mission in 2019. To support verification and validation, the flight software implementations of these algorithms have been run on New Horizons, Rosetta and terrestrially acquired data sets. These experiments validate the capability to detect the target, through noise and target location uncertainty.


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    Title :

    Near earth asteroid scout CubeSat science data retrieval optimization using onboard data analysis



    Publication date :

    2019-03-02


    Type of media :

    Preprint


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English



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