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Paper Abstract
The ULTOR® Passive Pose and Position Engine (P3E) technology, developed by Advanced Optical Systems, Inc
(AOS), uses real-time image correlation to provide relative position and pose data for spacecraft guidance, navigation,
and control. Potential data sources include a wide variety of sensors, including visible and infrared cameras. ULTOR®
P3E has been demonstrated on a number of host processing platforms.
NASA is integrating ULTOR® P3E into its Relative Navigation System (RNS), which is being developed for the
upcoming Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Servicing Mission 4 (SM4). During SM4 ULTOR® P3E will perform realtime
pose and position measurements during both the approach and departure phases of the mission. This paper
describes the RNS implementation of ULTOR® P3E, and presents results from NASA's hardware-in-the-loop
simulation testing against the HST mockup.
Paper Details
Date Published: 15 April 2008
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 6958, Sensors and Systems for Space Applications II, 69580I (15 April 2008); doi: 10.1117/12.777193
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6958:
Sensors and Systems for Space Applications II
Richard T. Howard; Pejmun Motaghedi, Editor(s)
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 6958, Sensors and Systems for Space Applications II, 69580I (15 April 2008); doi: 10.1117/12.777193
Show Author Affiliations
S. Joel Hannah, Advanced Optical Systems, Inc. (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6958:
Sensors and Systems for Space Applications II
Richard T. Howard; Pejmun Motaghedi, Editor(s)
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