Vision System for the Mars Sample Return Capture Containment and Return System (CCRS)

Vision System for the Mars Sample Return Capture Containment and Return System (CCRS)

The successful 2020 launch and 2021 landing of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Perseverance Mars rover initiated the first phase of the NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Sample Return (MSR) campaign. The goal of the MSR campaign is to collect scientifically interes...

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Published in:Aerospace Vol. 11; no. 6; p. 456
Main Authors: Bos, Brent J., Donovan, David L., Capone, John I., Wang, Chen, Hardwick, Terra C., Bell, Dylan E., Zhu, Yuqing, Podgurski, Robert, Rizk, Bashar, Orlowski, Ireneusz, Edison, Rachel A., Harvey, David A., Dizon, Brianna, Haseltine, Lindsay, Olsen, Kristoffer C., Sheng, Chad, Bousquet, Robert R., Vo, Luan Q., Georgiev, Georgi T., Washington, Kristen A., Singer, Michael J., Ioana, Stefan, Le, Anloc H., Georgieva, Elena M., Hackett, Michael T., Ravine, Michael A., Caplinger, Michael, Coulter, Phillip, Percy, Erin, Torisky, Charles, Lauenstein, Jean-Marie, Ryder, Kaitlyn L., Campola, Michael J., Johnstone, Dillon E., Thomes, William J., Schnurr, Richard G., McCloskey, John C., De Marco, Eugenia L., Lee, Ellen, Yew, Calinda M., Yang, Bo, Han, Mingyu, Blonski, Bartosz
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Basel MDPI AG 01-06-2024
Subjects:
Aeronautics
Broadband
Cameras
Computer services industry
Containment
Earth
Electric waves
Electromagnetic radiation
Electromagnetic waves
Laboratory tests
Light emitting diodes
Mars
Mars probes
Mars rovers
Mars sample return missions
Mars surface
Optical properties
Return to Earth space flight
sample return
space optics
Spacecraft
Spacecraft components
Spacecraft recovery
Vision systems
United Kingdom
United States > US
Utah
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Summary:The successful 2020 launch and 2021 landing of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Perseverance Mars rover initiated the first phase of the NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Sample Return (MSR) campaign. The goal of the MSR campaign is to collect scientifically interesting samples from the Martian surface and return them to Earth for further study in terrestrial laboratories. The MSR campaign consists of three major spacecraft components to accomplish this objective: the Perseverance Mars rover, the Sample Retrieval Lander (SRL) and the Earth Return Orbiter (ERO). Onboard the ERO spacecraft is the Capture, Containment and Return System (CCRS). CCRS will capture, process and return to Earth the samples that have been collected after they are launched into Mars orbit by the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), which is delivered to Mars onboard the SRL. To facilitate the processing of the orbiting sample (OS) via the CCRS, we have designed and developed a vision system to determine the OS capture orientation. The vision system is composed of two cameras sensitive to the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum and two illumination modules constructed from broadband light emitting diodes (LED). Vision system laboratory tests and physics-based optical simulations predict CCRS ground processing will be able to correctly identify the OS post-capture orientation using only a single vision system image that is transmitted to Earth from Mars orbit.
ISSN:2226-4310
2226-4310
DOI:10.3390/aerospace11060456