By Simone D'Amico Jan 11, 2022
I am happy to report that we have held the Critical Design Review (CDR) of the NSF-funded VIrtual Super Optics Reconfigurable Swarm (VISORS) mission. VISORS is a distributed telescope consisting of two 6U CubeSats separated by 40 meters that will obtain high-resolution images of active solar regions in the extreme ultraviolet spectrum.
The Space Rendezvous Laboratory is responsible for the Orbit Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) subsystem which aims at unprecedented formation-flying alignment with relative position control accuracy of about 1cm and stability down to 1mm over repeated observations of 10 seconds duration. More details here:
Koenig A. W., D'Amico S., Lightsey E. G.; Formation Flying Orbit and Control Concept for the VISORS Mission; AIAA Scitech 2021 Forum, Virtual Event, January 11-15 & 19-21 (2021).
Congratulations to the whole multi-university VISORS team.
Simone D'Amico is the founder and director of SLAB
