HAYABUSA, launched May 2003, is the first Japanese spacecraft to explore the small asteroid Itokawa. HAYABUSA had rendezvous Itokawa in three month in 2005 and touched down it twice to sample the material from it. LIDAR is a one of important navigation sensor to measure the distance between HAYABUSA and Itokawa from 50km to 50m. LIDAR operated in the three months and was estimated to have shot more than 4 million laser pulses and had supplied the ranging data to spacecraft navigation system to approach Itokawa down to 30 m.
Lidar on board asteroid explorer Hayabusa
International Conference on Space Optics — ICSO 2006 ; 2006 ; Noordwijk,Netherlands
Proc. SPIE ; 10567
21.11.2017
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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