Narrow Angle Camera for the MSR-ERO mission

Paper number

IAC-21,A3,3B,4,x66898

Author

Mr. Roland Le Goff, France, SODERN

Coauthor

Mr. Antoine Lecocq, France, SODERN

Coauthor

Ms. Karen Ravel, France, SODERN

Year

2021

Abstract

Beginning of 2021 Sodern has been selected by Airbus Defense and Space for supplying the Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) in the frame of the Mars Sample Return spacecraft a key element of the Earth Return Orbiter (MSR-ERO) mission. 
The Narrow Angle Camera is meant to take images of the Orbiting Sample (OS) and stars in the vicinity of mars, in both for OS detection and the orbit determination and during the Rendezvous (RDV) phase of the MSR-ERO mission. 
Sodern will use its expertise built up over decades of experience in star trackers and cameras in particular with the recent development of the navigation camera (NAVCAM) for the Jupiter Icy Moon explorer (Juice) ESA mission. 
This paper describes the current features of the NAC camera and the ongoing activies.

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