LONEStar: The Lunar Flashlight Optical Navigation Experiment
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| author | Krause, Michael Thrasher, Ava Soni, Priyal Smego, Liam Isaac, Reuben Nolan, Jennifer Pledger, Micah Lightsey, E. Glenn Ready, W. Jud Christian, John |
| author_facet | Krause, Michael Thrasher, Ava Soni, Priyal Smego, Liam Isaac, Reuben Nolan, Jennifer Pledger, Micah Lightsey, E. Glenn Ready, W. Jud Christian, John |
| contents | This paper documents the results from the highly successful Lunar flashlight Optical Navigation Experiment with a Star tracker (LONEStar). Launched in December 2022, Lunar Flashlight (LF) was a NASA-funded technology demonstration mission. After a propulsion system anomaly prevented capture in lunar orbit, LF was ejected from the Earth-Moon system and into heliocentric space. NASA subsequently transferred ownership of LF to Georgia Tech to conduct an unfunded extended mission to demonstrate further advanced technology objectives, including LONEStar. From August-December 2023, the LONEStar team performed on-orbit calibration of the optical instrument and a number of different OPNAV experiments. This campaign included the processing of nearly 400 images of star fields, Earth and Moon, and four other planets (Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn). LONEStar provided the first on-orbit demonstrations of heliocentric navigation using only optical observations of planets. Of special note is the successful in-flight demonstration of (1) instantaneous triangulation with simultaneous sightings of two planets with the LOST algorithm and (2) dynamic triangulation with sequential sightings of multiple planets. |
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| spellingShingle | LONEStar: The Lunar Flashlight Optical Navigation Experiment Krause, Michael Thrasher, Ava Soni, Priyal Smego, Liam Isaac, Reuben Nolan, Jennifer Pledger, Micah Lightsey, E. Glenn Ready, W. Jud Christian, John Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Space Physics This paper documents the results from the highly successful Lunar flashlight Optical Navigation Experiment with a Star tracker (LONEStar). Launched in December 2022, Lunar Flashlight (LF) was a NASA-funded technology demonstration mission. After a propulsion system anomaly prevented capture in lunar orbit, LF was ejected from the Earth-Moon system and into heliocentric space. NASA subsequently transferred ownership of LF to Georgia Tech to conduct an unfunded extended mission to demonstrate further advanced technology objectives, including LONEStar. From August-December 2023, the LONEStar team performed on-orbit calibration of the optical instrument and a number of different OPNAV experiments. This campaign included the processing of nearly 400 images of star fields, Earth and Moon, and four other planets (Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn). LONEStar provided the first on-orbit demonstrations of heliocentric navigation using only optical observations of planets. Of special note is the successful in-flight demonstration of (1) instantaneous triangulation with simultaneous sightings of two planets with the LOST algorithm and (2) dynamic triangulation with sequential sightings of multiple planets. |
| title | LONEStar: The Lunar Flashlight Optical Navigation Experiment |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Space Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12198 |