The Video Guidance Sensor was flown on STS-87 in November of 1997 and is the key element of an automatic rendezvous and docking program under development by NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. The system used laser illumination of a passive target in the field of view of an on-board camera and processed the video image to determine the relative position and attitude between the target and the sensor. Comparisons of mission results with theoretical models are discussed.


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    Title :

    Automatic docking system sensor: analysis and mission performance


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    Conference:

    Laser Radar Technology and Applications III ; 1998 ; Orlando,FL,USA


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    Publication date :

    1998-09-08





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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