{"id":372699,"date":"2017-09-13T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=03c37a4b09cdcdf6f1e691a1cc6f0500"},"modified":"2017-09-13T08:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T12:49:00","slug":"visible-and-infrared-imaging-of-model-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=372699","title":{"rendered":"Visible and infrared imaging of model satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThermal infrared and visible light cameras mounted on a robot arm<\/a> as it approaches a model of a dead satellite, as part of a demonstration of vision-based navigation systems intended for ESA\u2019s e.Deorbit active space debris removal mission.\n<\/p>\n

\nESA\u2019s Orbital Robotics Laboratory<\/a> carried out the demonstration, to investigate the kind of guidance, navigation and control systems<\/a> the mission will need to close in safely on a drifting satellite, as a prelude to capturing and deorbiting it.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn the orbital environment, light conditions are changing all the time, with rapid sunrises and sunsets alternating between complete darkness and dazzling sunlight, so thermal infrared offers a reliable backup imaging solution.\n<\/p>\n

\nESA\u2019s Clean Space<\/a> initiative is developing the e.Deorbit mission<\/a> for a projected launch in 2024, intended to take down a large item of ESA-owned debris . Clean Space is working with a variety of expert ESA teams to develop the high-performance technologies such an ambitious mission will require.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nThermal infrared and visible light cameras mounted on a robot arm<\/a> as it approaches a model of a dead satellite, as part of a demonstration of vision-based navigation systems intended for ESA’s e.Deorbit active space debris removal mission.\n<\/p>\n

\nESA’s Orbital Robotics Laboratory<\/a> carried out the demonstration, to investigate the kind of guidance, navigation and control systems<\/a> the mission will need to close in safely on a drifting satellite, as a prelude to capturing and deorbiting it.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn the orbital environment, light conditions are changing all the time, with rapid sunrises and sunsets alternating between complete darkness and dazzling sunlight, so thermal infrared offers a reliable backup imaging solution.\n<\/p>\n

\nESA’s Clean Space<\/a> initiative is developing the e.Deorbit mission<\/a> for a projected launch in 2024, intended to take down a large item of ESA-owned debris . Clean Space is working with a variety of expert ESA teams to develop the high-performance technologies such an ambitious mission will require.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373315,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372699\/revisions\/373315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}