This paper summarizes the assessment of the Optical Navigation Flight Test Objective (FTO) during the flight of Artemis I. The Optical Navigation (OpNav) System was tested under a variety of range, target, and lighting conditions to evaluate the performance compared to the pre-flight predicted error models. In general, OpNav performed very well – successfully processing over a thousand images of starfields, Earth, and Moon. The performance of the algorithm when processing Moon images matched the pre-flight expected error models. The errors when processing Earth images were notably higher than the pre-flight models predicted, however this was found to be due to an over-estimation of the atmosphere bias used in the tuning of the algorithm. After the bias was re-tuned and the images reprocessed, performance significantly improved.


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    Title :

    Artemis I Optical Navigation System Performance


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AIAA SciTech Forum and Exposition ; 2024 ; Orlando, FL, US


    Publication date :

    2024-01-08


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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