NRL technologies for autonomous inter-spacecraft rendezvous and proximity operations

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 115, Issue SUPPL., 2003, Pages 224-242

  Creamer, Glenn ^a   Pipitone, Frank ^a   Gilbreath, Charmaine ^a   Bird, Dexter ^b   Hollander, Sam ^c  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Craft Engineering

^c Code 7215 ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTER-SPACECRAFT NAVIGATION; MULTI-VEHICLE MISSIONS; PROXIMITY OPERATIONS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGING SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SOLID STATE DEVICES; SPACE RENDEZVOUS;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 1542329577     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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