MSR RENDEZVOUS AND CAPTURE PHASE: THE GNC SUBSYSTEM SOLUTION AND A SNAPSHOT OVER THE IMAGE PROCESSING ALGORITHMS AND NARROW ANGLE CAMERA ELEGANT BREADBOARD

摘要

Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, jointly run by the European Space Agency and NASA, aims at making further headway in the exploration of Mars, bringing Martian soil samples back to Earth. Running from 2020 to 2030, the international mission will foresee three launches from Earth and one more rocket lift-off from Mars, with the purpose of collecting Martian soil samples, storing them in an orbiting sample container (OS) and bringing them back to the Earth, where a team of international scientists will be able to perform analysis otherwise not possible on Mars with the current technology.