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OPAL Landing Technology, Terrain Relative Navigation Validated

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Tom Patton
Nov 15, 2022
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A terrain relative navigation (TRN) landing suite for lunar landers developed by Astrobotic was fully validated during a week-long terrestrial flight test campaign above the mountains of the northern Mojave Desert in California.

“Our hardware and software captured hundreds of images, detected and matched features in our maps, and successfully produced va…

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