Safeguarding Space Operations
Two or more spacecraft operating in proximity require highly accurate relative navigation to ensure safe, reliable performance. SDL prepares spacecraft for dynamic space operations through rigorous simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
RPOD Mission Emulation & Test
Our experts emulate rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking (RPOD) activities in a realistic, dynamic, synchronized environment. We provide RPOD-capable spacecraft, sensors, algorithms, safety and autonomy software, modeling and simulation, and hardware-in-the-loop testing. We offer several test modalities for RPOD hardware and software, including but not limited to the following:
- Relative navigation, including station keeping, circumnavigations & ingress
- Docking
- Space situational awareness
- Space domain awareness
- Debris detection & mitigation
- Asteroid sample capture & return
- Camera intrinsic/extrinsic calibration
- Sensor fusion
- Algorithm verification
- Synthetic image verification
- Stray light testing