Automatic docking system sensor: analysis and mission performance

John Larkin Jackson; Richard T. Howard; Helen Johnson Cole; Ronald A. Belz

doi:10.1117/12.327209

8 September 1998 Automatic docking system sensor: analysis and mission performance

John Larkin Jackson; Richard T. Howard; Helen Johnson Cole; Ronald A. Belz

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Proceedings Volume 3380, Laser Radar Technology and Applications III; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.327209
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls, 1998, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

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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John Larkin Jackson, John Larkin Jackson, Richard T. Howard, Richard T. Howard, Helen Johnson Cole, Helen Johnson Cole, Ronald A. Belz, Ronald A. Belz, } "Automatic docking system sensor: analysis and mission performance", Proc. SPIE 3380, Laser Radar Technology and Applications III, (8 September 1998); doi: 10.1117/12.327209; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.327209

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