Autonomous spacecraft relative navigation technology has been planned for and applied to
many famous space missions. The development of on-board electronics systems has …

Relative navigation of multiple spacecraft based on the processing of Global Navigation
Satellite System (GNSS) signals has been successfully performed in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) …

Autonomous vision-based spaceborne navigation is an enabling technology for future on-
orbit servicing and space logistics missions. While computer vision in general has benefited …

This article concerns the second Satellite Pose Estimation Competition (SPEC2021), an
international competition designed to address the challenging problem of domain gap in …

Abstract This work presents Spacecraft Pose Network v2 (SPNv2), a Convolutional Neural
Network (CNN) for pose estimation of noncooperative spacecraft across domain gap. SPNv2 …

This paper aims to present a deep learning-based pipeline for estimating the pose of an
uncooperative target spacecraft from a single grayscale monocular image. The possibility of …

The rapid development of the aerospace industry puts forward the urgent need for the
evolution of autonomous spacecraft rendezvous technology, which has gained significant …

Being capable of estimating the pose of uncooperative objects in space has been proposed
as a key asset for enabling safe close-proximity operations such as space rendezvous, in …

The estimation of the relative pose of an inactive spacecraft by an active servicer spacecraft
is a critical task for close-proximity operations, such as In-Orbit Servicing and Active Debris …

In recent years, space debris has become a threat for satellites operating in low Earth orbit.
Even by applying mitigation guidelines, their number will still increase over the course of the …