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DART AVGS flight results

2007; SPIE; Volume: 6555; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1117/12.720242

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Richard T. Howard, Thomas C. Bryan,

Astro and Planetary Science

The Advanced Video Guidance Sensor (AVGS) was designed to be the proximity operations sensor for the Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technologies (DART). The DART mission flew in April of 2005 and was a partial success. The AVGS did not get the opportunity to operate in every mode in orbit, but those modes in which it did operate were completely successful. This paper will detail the development, testing, and on-orbit performance of the AVGS.