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The ESA Workshop on GNC for Small Body Missions

TOPICS

  • How accurately can one land on a small body? What are the related technologies?
  • Vision-based navigation: the solution to accurate descent and landing?
  • The use of ranging techniques during descent
  • Orbiting around a small body: challenges and solutions?
  • The hazards encountered on small bodies. Can lessons learned from previous missions help design future probes?
  • Asteroid environment: how does it affect the GNC aspects?
  • Landing, touching down or hovering on a small body. Discussion from a GNC perspective
  • Controlling a sampling spacecraft on the surface of an asteroid
  • GNC’s lessons learned from previous missions
  • Small body sample return missions in preparation: what are the envisaged GNC approach?
  • Technology development towards descent and landing GNC
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