Surface Modeling to Support Small-Body Spacecraft Exploration and Proximity Operations
TBMG-11892
11/01/2011
- Content
In order to simulate physically plausible surfaces that represent geologically evolved surfaces, demonstrating demanding surface-relative guidance navigation and control (GN&C) actions, such surfaces must be made to mimic the geological processes themselves. A report describes how, using software and algorithms to model body surfaces as a series of digital terrain maps, a series of processes was put in place that evolve the surface from some assumed nominal starting condition.
- Citation
- "Surface Modeling to Support Small-Body Spacecraft Exploration and Proximity Operations," Mobility Engineering, November 1, 2011.